Aluminiumphosphate mit nichtzentrosymmetrischen Schicht-und Raumnetzstrukturen aus topologisch verwandten Motiven: 1. KAl2(PO4)2(OH)·4H2O/Aluminum Phosphates with Non-Centrosym metric Layer-and Framework-Structures of Topologically Related Motifs 1. KAl2(PO4)2(OH)·4H2O
Abstract KAl2(PO4)2(OH)·4H2O could be obtained by the reaction of gibbsite with a potassium-phosphate solution of pH = 5.5 at 333 K. A single crystal X-ray structure analysis showed that KAl2(PO4)2(OH)·4H2O is isotypic with the mineral minyulite. Crystal data: orthorhombic space group Pba2, a = 934.7(1), b = 982, 1 (1), c = 551,0(1) pm, Z = 2. It possesses dimeric units of Al-octahedra which are bridged by an OH-and two bidentate phosphate groups. The dimers are linked by phosphate to plane polar layers. Cavities in the layers are occupied by K ions. One corner of each phosphate tetrahedron is not connected to Al but accepts four hydrogen bonds from water molecules bound to Al of the adjacent layer. A powder neutron scattering experiment with KAl2(PO4)2(OD)·4D2O showed that four D atoms and P coordinate the hydrogen bond accepting O in KAl2(PO4)2(OD)·4D2O like a square pyramid. Analogous dimeric building units are found in the Al phosphate minerals minyulite and morinite; similar dimers of Fe octahedra occur in the mineral copiapite, a number of Fe containing enzymes and numerous synthetic iron complexes.High-resolution 31P solid-state NMR spectra show only one isotropic line at δiso = -9.6 ppm and confirm the presence of one symmetry independent phosphorus site in the unit cell. In the 1H-MAS-NMR spectra the water molecules and the bridging OH groups show signals at 5.4 and 1.4 ppm, respectively