Ketter M, Weil M. Single crystals of SnTe
3O
8 in the millimetre range grown by chemical vapor transport reactions.
Acta Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun 2021;
77:1276-1279. [PMID:
34925897 PMCID:
PMC8647729 DOI:
10.1107/s2056989021011828]
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Abstract
Tin(IV) trioxidotellurate(IV), SnTe3O8, is a member of the isotypic M IVTeIV 3O8 (M = Ti, Zr, Hf, Sn) series crystallizing with eight formula units per unit cell in space group Ia . In comparison with the previous crystal structure model of SnTe3O8 based on powder X-ray diffraction data [Meunier & Galy (1971 ▸). Acta Cryst. B27, 602-608], the current model based on single-crystal X-ray data is improved in terms of precision and accuracy. Nearly regular [SnO6] octa-hedra (Sn site symmetry ..) are situated in the voids of an oxidotellurate(IV) framework built up by corner-sharing [TeO4] bis-phenoids (Te site symmetry 2..). A qu-anti-tative structural comparison revealed a very high degree of similarity for the structures with M = Ti, Zr, Sn in the M IVTe3O8 series.
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