The packing structures of ionic crystals is an interesting field of study and this Hot Communication by Masaki Saito and Tomoji Ozeki is certainly no exception!
![A Sr2+ salt of [MoVI72MoV60O372(CH3COO)30(H2O)72]42− exhibits a superposed kagome-lattice with huge channels whose diameters measure approximately 3.0 nm](https://blogs.rsc.org/dt/files/2012/05/GA2.jpg "A Sr2+ salt of [MoVI72MoV60O372(CH3COO)30(H2O)72]42− exhibits a superposed kagome-lattice with huge channels whose diameters measure approximately 3.0 nm")
Huge channels in a superposed kagome-lattice
The pair from the Ozeki Research Group have determined the crystal structures of a couple of interesting structures, one of which “exhibits a superposed kagome-lattice with huge channels whose diameters measure approximately 3.0 nm”.
To read more about these new compounds you can download the full paper below
Crystallization of a Keplerate-type polyoxometalate into a superposed kagome-lattice with huge channels
Masaki Saito and Tomoji Ozeki
You might also be interested in a few other papers on polyoxometalates, which along with this article will be published in our upcoming themed issue focusing on the topic.
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A co-crystal of polyoxometalates exhibiting single-molecule magnet behavior: the structural origin of a large magnetic anisotropy
Xikui Fang, Kendall McCallum, Harry D. Pratt III, Travis M. Anderson, Kevin Dennis and Marshall Luban
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