Single-crystals of thallium(I) iodide oxide Tl3IO were obtained as by-product in a hydroflux synthesis at 473 K for 10 h. The oxygen atoms center thallium octahedra. The [OTl6] octahedra share trans faces, forming a linear chain along [001]. Twelve thallium atoms surround each iodine atom in an [ITl12] anti-cuboctahedron. Thallium and iodine atoms together form a hexagonal close-sphere packing, in which every fourth octahedral void is occupied by oxygen.
Keywords: crystal structure, hydroflux synthesis, thallium, oxide iodide, single-crystal XRD
Abstract
Single-crystals of thallium(I) iodide oxide Tl3IO were obtained as by-product in a hydroflux synthesis at 473 K for 10 h. A potassium hydroxide hydroflux with a water-base molar ratio of 1.6 and the starting materials TlNO3, RhI3 and Ba(NO3)2 was used, resulting in a few black needle-shaped crystals. X-ray diffraction on a single-crystal revealed the hexagonal space group P63/mmc (No. 194) with lattice parameters a = 7.1512 (3) Å and c = 6.3639 (3) Å. Tl3IO crystallizes as hexagonal anti-perovskite (anti-BaNiO3 type) and is thus structurally related to the alkali-metal halide/auride oxides M 3 XO (M = K, Rb, Cs; X = Cl, Br, I, Au). The oxygen atoms center thallium octahedra. The [OTl6] octahedra share trans faces, forming a linear chain along [001]. Twelve thallium atoms surround each iodine atom in an [ITl12] anti-cuboctahedron. Thallium and iodine atoms together form a hexagonal close-sphere packing, in which every fourth octahedral void is occupied by oxygen.
Chemical context
The class of alkali-metal halide/auride oxides comprises several compounds with the general formula M 3 XO (M = K, Rb, Cs; X = Cl, Br, I, Au) (Sitta et al., 1991a ▸,b ▸; Feldmann & Jansen, 1995a ▸,b ▸,c ▸; Sabrowsky et al., 1996 ▸), Li3BrO (Wortmann et al., 1989 ▸), Na3 X′O (X′ = Cl, Br) (Sabrowsky et al., 1988 ▸; Hippler et al., 1990 ▸). These ternary oxides crystallize typically as anti-perovskites, i.e. in the cubic anti-CaTiO3 type. The cesium derivatives Cs3BrO, Cs3IO and Cs3AuO adopt hexagonal anti-perovskite structures (anti-BaNiO3 type), whereas the Cs3ClO crystallizes as anti-NH4CdCl3 type and thus does not form a perovskite structure. The crystal structure of Rb3IO has both face and corner-sharing [ORb6] octahedra (anti-BaFeO3–x type). The adopted structure type depends on the size of the alkali-metal and halide/auride ions and their ratio. The stability range of the different perovskite phases can be estimated by using Goldschmidt’s tolerance factor, where larger M and X ions tend to destabilize the cubic anti-perovskite structure resulting in the hexagonal polymorph (Babel, 1969 ▸; Feldmann & Jansen, 1995b ▸).
For the synthesis of the title compound, the hydroflux method was used, which can be classified as intermediate between hydrothermal and flux synthesis (Chance et al., 2013 ▸). An approximately equimolar mixture of alkali-metal hydroxide (typically NaOH or KOH) and water is used as reaction medium (Albrecht et al., 2020a ▸). Good solubility of oxides and hydroxides, highly crystalline reaction products suitable for single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis, comparably low reaction temperatures and a pressureless setup are essential advantages of the hydroflux method. In this communication, we report on the synthesis and crystal structure analysis of the thallium(I) iodide oxide Tl3IO.
Structural commentary
Single-crystal X-ray diffraction on a black needle revealed the composition Tl3IO and a hexagonal structure in the space group P63/mmc (no. 194) with lattice parameters a = 7.1512 (3) Å and c = 6.3639 (3) Å at 100 (1) K. Tl3IO crystallizes as hexagonal anti-perovskite (anti-BaNiO3 type; Fig. 1 ▸, Tables 1 ▸ and 2 ▸). The asymmetric unit consists of three atoms, thallium (site symmetry mm2, Wyckoff position 6h), iodine (
m2, 2d) and oxygen (
m., 2a). The oxygen atoms center thallium octahedra. The [OTl6] octahedra share trans faces, forming a linear chain along [001]. Twelve thallium atoms surround each iodine atom in a [ITl12] anti-cuboctahedron (triangular orthobicupola). Thallium and iodine atoms together form a hexagonal close-sphere packing, in which every fourth octahedral void is occupied by oxygen. Thus, also the thallium atom centers an anti-cuboctahedron, which has the composition [Tl(I4Tl8)].
Figure 1.
Crystal structure of Tl3IO in P63/mmc, highlighting the one-dimensional chains consisting of [OTl6] octahedra. Ellipsoids enclose 99% of the probability density of the atoms.
Table 1. Atomic coordinates and equivalent isotropic displacement parameters (in 10 4 Å2) in Tl3IO at 100 (1) K.
Atom | Wyckoff symbol | x | y | z | U iso/U eq |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tl | 6h | 0.1608 (1) | 0.3216 (1) | 1/4 | 47 (1) |
I | 2d | 2/3 | 1/3 | 1/4 | 53 (1) |
O | 2a | 0 | 0 | 0 | 68 (7) |
Table 2. Anisotropic displacement parameters (in 10 4 Å2) in Tl3IO at 100 (1) K.
Atom | U 11 | U 22 | U 33 | U 23 | U 12 | U 13 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tl | 38 (1) | 24 (1) | 73 (1) | 0 | 0 | 12 (1) |
I | 42 (1) | 42 (1) | 77 (2) | 0 | 0 | 21 (1) |
O | 68 (10) | 68 (10) | 68 (19) | 0 | 0 | 34 (5) |
The [OTl6] octahedron is slightly elongated along the chain direction. The O—Tl bond length of 2.549 (1) Å is about 1% longer than in Tl2O, at 2.517 (1) Å (Sabrowsky, 1971 ▸). The Tl—O—Tl angles along the chain parallel to c are 94.8 (1)°. The shortest Tl⋯Tl distances in Tl3IO are with 3.449 (1) Å, very similar to those in thallium metal, which has Tl⋯Tl distances of 3.405 (1) and 3.455 (1) Å in its hexagonal sphere packing (Barrett, 1958 ▸). Accordingly, the [ITl12] anticuboctahedra are also stretched along [001], with Tl—I distances of 3.576 (1) Å and 3.833 (1) Å. Although thallium(I) has a larger ionic radius (1.70 Å for c.n. = 12; Shannon, 1976 ▸) than potassium (1.64 Å for c.n. = 12), the M—O, M⋯M and the average M—I distances in Tl3IO are smaller than in K3IO by 3.5%, 7.5% and 1%, respectively (Feldmann & Jansen, 1995b ▸).
Synthesis and crystallization
Thallium(I) iodide oxide, Tl3IO, was synthesized in a potassium hydroxide hydroflux. The reaction was carried out in a PTFE-lined 50 mL Berghof type DAB-2 stainless steel autoclave starting from TlNO3 (0.38 mmol; abcr, 99.5%), RhI3 (0.06 mmol; abcr, 99%), and Ba(NO3)2 (0.19 mmol; VEB Laborchemie Apolda, 99%). Water and potassium hydroxide (86%, Fisher Scientific) in the molar ratio of 1.6:1.0 were added to these compounds. The sealed autoclave was heated at a heating rate of 2 K min−1 to 473 K and after 10 h cooled to room temperature at a rate of 0.1 K min−1. The reaction product after washing with water mainly consisted of thallium(I) iodide, thallium(III) oxide, barium carbonate and a brown powder of an unidentified rhodium-containing compound. A few black single crystals of Tl3IO with a needle-like morphology were found, which are sensitive to water and other protic solvents. In contact with water, the Tl3IO crystals immediately turn yellow, probably due to the formation of thallium(I) hydroxide and thallium(I) iodide, which are both yellow. Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy on Tl3IO single-crystals revealed a disproportionately high oxygen content, indicating surface decomposition.
Several experiments failed to exchange rhodium(III) iodide with other iodine sources like potassium iodide, copper(I) iodide or silver(I) iodide. Likewise, experiments without barium nitrate were not successful. However, when both starting materials were used, Tl3IO was obtained reproducibly, also at reaction temperatures of 423 K or 523 K. Similarly, the hydrothermal synthesis of Na3[Tl(OH)6] starting from thallium(I) sulfate required heavy metal salts like bismuth nitrate (Giesselbach, 2002 ▸). The oxidation of thallium(I) to thallium(III) in this reaction was achieved by oxygen in alkaline solutions (Rich, 2007 ▸).
The alkali-metal oxide halides M 3 XO are reported to be very sensitive to traces of moisture or carbon dioxide due to their highly basic nature (Feldmann & Jansen, 1995b ▸). Remarkably, Tl3IO crystallizes in the presence of water from the hydroflux. In other experiments, we synthesized a water sensitive oxohydroxoferrate (Albrecht et al., 2019 ▸) or an oxidation sensitive manganate(V) from hydroflux (Albrecht et al., 2020b ▸). Obviously, the activity of water is dramatically reduced in these aqueous salt melts.
Refinement
Crystal data, data collection and structure refinement details are summarized in Table 3 ▸.
Table 3. Experimental details.
Crystal data | |
Chemical formula | Tl3IO |
M r | 756.01 |
Crystal system, space group | Hexagonal, P63/m m c |
Temperature (K) | 100 |
a, c (Å) | 7.1512 (3), 6.3639 (3) |
V (Å3) | 281.85 (3) |
Z | 2 |
Radiation type | Mo Kα |
μ (mm−1) | 90.87 |
Crystal size (mm) | 0.09 × 0.05 × 0.03 |
Data collection | |
Diffractometer | Bruker APEXII CCD |
Absorption correction | Multi-scan (SADABS; Bruker, 2016 ▸) |
T min, T max | 0.113, 0.749 |
No. of measured, independent and observed [I > 2σ(I)] reflections | 15853, 480, 442 |
R int | 0.049 |
(sin θ/λ)max (Å−1) | 0.995 |
Refinement | |
R[F 2 > 2σ(F 2)], wR(F 2), S | 0.018, 0.041, 1.29 |
No. of reflections | 480 |
No. of parameters | 10 |
Δρmax, Δρmin (e Å−3) | 2.80, −2.01 |
Supplementary Material
Crystal structure: contains datablock(s) I. DOI: 10.1107/S2056989020012359/pk2648sup1.cif
Structure factors: contains datablock(s) I. DOI: 10.1107/S2056989020012359/pk2648Isup2.hkl
CCDC reference: 2030857
Additional supporting information: crystallographic information; 3D view; checkCIF report
supplementary crystallographic information
Crystal data
Tl3IO | Dx = 8.908 Mg m−3 |
Mr = 756.01 | Mo Kα radiation, λ = 0.71073 Å |
Hexagonal, P63/mmc | Cell parameters from 8223 reflections |
a = 7.1512 (3) Å | θ = 3.2–46.5° |
c = 6.3639 (3) Å | µ = 90.87 mm−1 |
V = 281.85 (3) Å3 | T = 100 K |
Z = 2 | Needle, black |
F(000) = 608 | 0.09 × 0.05 × 0.03 mm |
Data collection
Bruker APEXII CCD diffractometer | 442 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
φ and ω scans | Rint = 0.049 |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (SADABS; Bruker, 2016) | θmax = 45.0°, θmin = 3.3° |
Tmin = 0.113, Tmax = 0.749 | h = −14→14 |
15853 measured reflections | k = −11→14 |
480 independent reflections | l = −11→12 |
Refinement
Refinement on F2 | 0 restraints |
Least-squares matrix: full | w = 1/[σ2(Fo2) + (0.0193P)2] where P = (Fo2 + 2Fc2)/3 |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.018 | (Δ/σ)max < 0.001 |
wR(F2) = 0.041 | Δρmax = 2.80 e Å−3 |
S = 1.29 | Δρmin = −2.01 e Å−3 |
480 reflections | Extinction correction: SHELXL-2016/6 (Sheldrick 2015b), Fc*=kFc[1+0.001xFc2λ3/sin(2θ)]-1/4 |
10 parameters | Extinction coefficient: 0.0035 (2) |
Special details
Geometry. All esds (except the esd in the dihedral angle between two l.s. planes) are estimated using the full covariance matrix. The cell esds are taken into account individually in the estimation of esds in distances, angles and torsion angles; correlations between esds in cell parameters are only used when they are defined by crystal symmetry. An approximate (isotropic) treatment of cell esds is used for estimating esds involving l.s. planes. |
Fractional atomic coordinates and isotropic or equivalent isotropic displacement parameters (Å2)
x | y | z | Uiso*/Ueq | ||
Tl | 0.16078 (2) | 0.32156 (2) | 0.250000 | 0.00465 (5) | |
I | 0.666667 | 0.333333 | 0.250000 | 0.00534 (7) | |
O | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 0.0068 (7) |
Atomic displacement parameters (Å2)
U11 | U22 | U33 | U12 | U13 | U23 | |
Tl | 0.00378 (6) | 0.00238 (6) | 0.00733 (9) | 0.00119 (3) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
I | 0.00418 (9) | 0.00418 (9) | 0.00765 (18) | 0.00209 (5) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
O | 0.0068 (10) | 0.0068 (10) | 0.0068 (19) | 0.0034 (5) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Geometric parameters (Å, º)
Tl—Tli | 3.4494 (3) | Tl—Tlvi | 3.7538 (1) |
Tl—Tlii | 3.7538 (1) | Tl—Tlvii | 3.7018 (3) |
Tl—Tliii | 3.7538 (1) | Tl—Tlviii | 3.7018 (3) |
Tl—Tliv | 3.4494 (3) | Tl—O | 2.5490 (1) |
Tl—Tlv | 3.7538 (1) | Tl—Oix | 2.5490 (1) |
Tli—Tl—Tliv | 60.0 | O—Tl—Tlviii | 132.580 (2) |
Tliv—Tl—Tliii | 62.648 (2) | Oix—Tl—Tlviii | 132.580 (2) |
Tlvii—Tl—Tlvi | 90.0 | Oix—Tl—Tliv | 47.420 (2) |
Tli—Tl—Tlviii | 180.0 | Oix—Tl—Tli | 47.420 (2) |
Tlv—Tl—Tliii | 115.917 (5) | O—Tl—Tliii | 42.580 (2) |
Tliv—Tl—Tlviii | 120.0 | O—Tl—Tliv | 47.420 (2) |
Tlii—Tl—Tlv | 149.235 (3) | Oix—Tl—Tlvii | 132.580 (2) |
Tli—Tl—Tlvii | 120.0 | O—Tl—Tlvii | 132.580 (2) |
Tliii—Tl—Tlvi | 149.235 (3) | O—Tl—Tli | 47.420 (2) |
Tliv—Tl—Tlvii | 180.0 | O—Tl—Tlv | 108.774 (4) |
Tliv—Tl—Tlvi | 90.0 | O—Tl—Tlii | 42.580 (2) |
Tlviii—Tl—Tlvii | 60.0 | O—Tl—Tlvi | 108.774 (4) |
Tlv—Tl—Tlvi | 54.704 (4) | Oix—Tl—Tlvi | 42.580 (2) |
Tli—Tl—Tlii | 62.648 (2) | Oix—Tl—Tliii | 108.774 (4) |
Tli—Tl—Tliii | 90.0 | O—Tl—Oix | 77.242 (5) |
Tliv—Tl—Tlii | 90.0 | Tlx—O—Tli | 94.839 (4) |
Tlviii—Tl—Tliii | 90.0 | Tlx—O—Tliii | 85.161 (4) |
Tlviii—Tl—Tlii | 117.352 (2) | Tl—O—Tlx | 180.0 |
Tlii—Tl—Tliii | 54.704 (4) | Tliv—O—Tli | 85.161 (4) |
Tlvii—Tl—Tlii | 90.0 | Tl—O—Tlii | 94.840 (4) |
Tli—Tl—Tlvi | 62.648 (2) | Tliv—O—Tliii | 94.839 (4) |
Tli—Tl—Tlv | 90.0 | Tlx—O—Tlii | 85.160 (4) |
Tlviii—Tl—Tlvi | 117.352 (2) | Tlii—O—Tli | 94.839 (4) |
Tliv—Tl—Tlv | 62.648 (2) | Tl—O—Tliv | 85.160 (4) |
Tlii—Tl—Tlvi | 115.917 (5) | Tl—O—Tliii | 94.840 (4) |
Tlviii—Tl—Tlv | 90.0 | Tlx—O—Tliv | 94.840 (4) |
Tlvii—Tl—Tlv | 117.352 (2) | Tlii—O—Tliii | 85.161 (4) |
Tlvii—Tl—Tliii | 117.352 (2) | Tlii—O—Tliv | 180.0 |
Oix—Tl—Tlii | 108.774 (4) | Tli—O—Tliii | 180.0 |
Oix—Tl—Tlv | 42.580 (2) | Tl—O—Tli | 85.160 (4) |
Symmetry codes: (i) −y, x−y, z; (ii) x−y, x, −z; (iii) y, −x+y, −z; (iv) −x+y, −x, z; (v) y, −x+y, −z+1; (vi) x−y, x, −z+1; (vii) −x+y, −x+1, z; (viii) −y+1, x−y+1, z; (ix) −x, −y, z+1/2; (x) −x, −y, −z.
Funding Statement
This work was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grant 438795198 to Michael Ruck.
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Supplementary Materials
Crystal structure: contains datablock(s) I. DOI: 10.1107/S2056989020012359/pk2648sup1.cif
Structure factors: contains datablock(s) I. DOI: 10.1107/S2056989020012359/pk2648Isup2.hkl
CCDC reference: 2030857
Additional supporting information: crystallographic information; 3D view; checkCIF report