Abstract
The structures of both Sr[AlO]·(SeO) and its reduced product Sr[AlO]·(Se) have been determined using profile refinements of powder neutron diffraction data. Both crystallize with the simple body centered cubic sodalite structure with strontium showing a tetrahedral coordination around SeO/Se, and selenite showing 24-fold disordering giving rise to a partially occupied distorted cuboctahedron comprising 24 identical deformed SeO trigonal pyramids. The infrared spectra of aluminate sodalites as a function of cage dimensions are discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 970-973 |
| Journal | Chemistry of Materials |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 7 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1993 |