Zhien Lin and collegues from Sichuan University, China have developed a promising open-framework beryllium phosphite in this CrystEngComm Hot article.
The team made (C2H8N)2[Be3(HPO3)4], referred to as BeHPO-1, which was found to have a low density, integrating large 16-ring channels, and an interrupted 3,4-connected framework, and has potential for use in catalysis, separation, and ion-exchange processes.
BeHPO3-1 has a very low-density framework, which is better than other open-framework metal phosphates, and similiar to mesoporous germanate SU-M.
The authors were particularly excited to discover both left- and right-handed helical channels in the structure and hope that this material will be ‘a step forward toward the rational construction of new open-framework inorganic solids with low densities’
Read the full article to find out more about this beryllium-containing open framework…
(C2H8N)2[Be3(HPO3)4]: a low-density beryllium phosphite with large 16-membered rings and helical channels
Xiuchao Luo, Daibing Luo, Maochu Gong, Yaoqiang Chen and Zhien Lin
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05117B, Communication
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