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Structure of magnesium selenate enneahydrate, MgSeO4·9H2O, from 5 to 250 K using neutron time-of-flight Laue diffraction

Fortes, AD; Alfè, D; Hernández, ER; Gutmann, MJ; (2015) Structure of magnesium selenate enneahydrate, MgSeO4·9H2O, from 5 to 250 K using neutron time-of-flight Laue diffraction. Acta Crystallographica Section B , 71 (Pt 3) pp. 313-327. 10.1107/S2052520615006824. Green open access

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Abstract

The complete structure of MgSeO4·9H2O has been refined from neutron single-crystal diffraction data obtained at 5, 100, 175 and 250 K. It is monoclinic, space group P2₁/c, Z = 4, with unit-cell parameters a = 7.222 (2), b = 10.484 (3), c = 17.327 (4) Å, β = 109.57 (2)°, and V = 1236.1 (6) Å(3) [ρ(calc) = 1770 (1) kg m(-3)] at 5 K. The structure consists of isolated [Mg(H2O)6](2+) octahedra, [SeO4](2-) tetrahedra and three interstitial lattice water molecules, all on sites of symmetry 1. The positions of the H atoms agree well with those inferred on the basis of geometrical considerations in the prior X-ray powder diffraction structure determination: no evidence of orientational disorder of the water molecules is apparent in the temperature range studied. Six of the nine water molecules are hydrogen bonded to one another to form a unique centrosymmetric dodecamer, (H2O)12. Raman spectra have been acquired in the range 170-4000 cm(-1) at 259 and 78 K; ab initio calculations, using density functional theory, have been carried out in order to aid in the analysis of the Raman spectrum as well as providing additional insights into the geometry and thermodynamics of the hydrogen bonds. Complementary information concerning the thermal expansion, crystal morphology and the solubility are also presented.

Type: Article
Title: Structure of magnesium selenate enneahydrate, MgSeO4·9H2O, from 5 to 250 K using neutron time-of-flight Laue diffraction
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1107/S2052520615006824
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S2052520615006824
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are cited.
Keywords: dodecamer, magnesium selenate enneahydrate, neutron diffraction
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1468468
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