Two new alkali vanadate carbonates with divalent transition metals have been synthesized as large single crystals via a high-temperature (600 °C) hydrothermal technique. Compound I , Rb 2 Mn 3 (VO 4 ) 2 CO 3 , crystallizes in the trigonal crystal system in the space group P 3̄1 c , and compound II , K 2 Co 3 (VO 4 ) 2 CO 3 , crystallizes in the hexagonal space group P 6 3 / m . Both structures contain honeycomb layers and triangular lattices made from edge-sharing MO 6 octahedra and MO 5 trigonal bipyramids, respectively. The honeycomb and triangular layers are connected along the c -axis through tetrahedral [VO 4 ] groups. The MO 5 units are connected with each other by carbonate groups in the ab -plane by forming a triangular magnetic lattice. The difference in space groups between I and II was also investigated with Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. Single crystal magnetic characterization of I indicates three magnetic transitions at 77 K, 2.3 K, and 1.5 K. The corresponding magnetic structures for each magnetic transition of I were determined using single crystal neutron diffraction. At 77 K the compound orders in the MnO 6more »
Observation of a Large Magnetic Anisotropy and a Field-Induced Magnetic State in SrCo(VO 4 )(OH): A Structure with a Quasi One-Dimensional Magnetic Chain
- Award ID(s):
- 1808371
- Publication Date:
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10215108
- Journal Name:
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Volume:
- 59
- Issue:
- 2
- Page Range or eLocation-ID:
- 1029 to 1037
- ISSN:
- 0020-1669
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation