Issue 34, 2011

New crystalline aluminum alkoxide oxide fluorides: Evidence of the mechanism of the fluorolytic sol–gel reaction

Abstract

This study reports three new crystalline aluminum isopropoxide oxide fluorides with molar ratios of Al : F equal to 1 : 1 and 1 : 1.25. These are the first three representatives isolated without the incorporation of external donor molecules. Compound 1Al4F4(μ4-O)(μ-OiPr)5[H(OiPr)2] contains a tetranuclear unit consisting of two different five fold coordinated AlFO4-units, with F exclusively in the terminal position. Compound 2, Al4F4(μ4-O)(μ-OiPr)5[H(OiPr)2]·Al5F5(μ5-O)(μ-OiPr)8, contains both a tetranuclear unit (as in 1) and a pentanuclear Al-unit. Al-atoms in the latter are five- and six fold coordinated. Compound 3, Al16F20(μ4-O)4(μ-OiPr)20·2(iPrOH), exhibits a slightly higher fluorination degree and contains an oligomeric chain of four F-linked tetranuclear Al-units. In addition to X-ray structure analysis, compound 1 was characterized by different solid state MAS NMR techniques, including 27Altriple quantumMAS NMR and 1H, 1H→13C CP, 19F and 27Al MAS NMR. On the basis of the collected data, a reliable decomposition of 27Alsingle pulseMAS NMR spectra and an unambiguous assignment of the resonances to the respective structural AlFO4-units are given. The new crystalline aluminum isopropoxide oxide fluorides are direct evidence of the fluorolytic sol–gel mechanism previously discussed.

Graphical abstract: New crystalline aluminum alkoxide oxide fluorides: Evidence of the mechanism of the fluorolytic sol–gel reaction

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
25 Mar 2011
Accepted
08 Jun 2011
First published
25 Jul 2011

Dalton Trans., 2011,40, 8701-8710

New crystalline aluminum alkoxide oxide fluorides: Evidence of the mechanism of the fluorolytic sol–gel reaction

R. König, G. Scholz, M. Veiczi, C. Jäger, S. I. Troyanov and E. Kemnitz, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 8701 DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10514K

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