Hydrogen-bonding system in amarillite, NaFe(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub>(H<sub>2</sub>O)<sub>6</sub>

Autor(en)
Zhuming Yang, Gerald Giester
Abstrakt

The crystal structure of amarillite, NaFe(SO4)2(H2O)6, was redetermined from a single crystal from Xitieshan, Qinghai Province, China. In complement to previous work, all non-H atoms were refined with anisotropic displacement parameters and H-atoms were located by difference Fourier methods and refined from X-ray diffraction data. The structure can be formally described by octahedral-tetrahedral "sheets" of corner-sharing [NaO4(H2O)2] octahedra and (SO4) tetrahedra, which constitute a structural sheet with composition [Na(SO4)2(H2O)2]3- extending parallel to (001). The resultant sheets are held together by interstitial Fe3+ cations and hydrogen bonds. The [NaO4(H2O)2] octahedra donate four hydrogen bonds to the oxygen atoms of neighboring (SO4) tetrahedra, thus strengthening connections in three dimensions. The interstitial [FeO2(H2O)4] octahedra are linked by eight hydrogen bonds to the vertices of the adjacent octahedral-tetrahedral sheets, further stabilizing the crystal structure of amarillite. The FTIR spectrum of amarillite shows a strong absorption between 3000 cm-1 and 3500 cm-1 with maxima at ∼3110cm-1 and ∼3442 cm-1, which is in accordance with the O-H···O distances derived from structure data.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie
Externe Organisation(en)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Journal
European Journal of Mineralogy: an international journal of mineralogy, geochemistry and related sciences
Band
28
Seiten
953-958
Anzahl der Seiten
6
ISSN
0935-1221
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1127/ejm/2016/0028-2567
Publikationsdatum
06-2016
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
105116 Mineralogie, 105113 Kristallographie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Geochemistry and Petrology
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