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Table 1
DIAMOND 3.1 [30] and Balls & Sticks (freely available) software
[31].
Summary of the crystal-data and refinement results for NO2SbF6, XeF5SbF6 and
XeF5Sb2F11
.
More details about the crystal-structure investigations may be
obtained from Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe, 76344 Eggen-
stein-Leopoldshafen, Germany (fax: +49 7247 808 666; e-mail:
ing the deposition numbers CSD-429243 (NO2SbF6), CSD-429244
(XeF5SbF6) and CSD-429245 (XeF5Sb2F11).
Formula
NO2SbF6
150
XeF5SbF6
150
XeF5Sb2F11
200
T (K)
Crystal system
Space group
Orthorhombic
Cmmm
6.8119(7)
7.3517(7)
5.5665(5)
/
Orthorhombic
Pnma
Triclinic
¯
P1
˚
a (A)
16.7159(6)
8.1093(3)
5.7576(2)
/
8.5223(8)
8.5582(8)
9.2012(8)
68.799(8)
74.897(8)
76.252(8)
596.35(10)
2
˚
b (A)
˚
c (A)
a
b
g
(8)
(8)
(8)
/
/
/
/
3. Results and discussion
3
˚
V (A )
278.77(5)
2
780.47(5)
4
Z
Details of the data-collection parameters and other crystallo-
graphic information about NO2SbF6, XeF5SbF6 and XeF5Sb2F11 are
provided in Table 1.
Dcalcd (g/cm3)
3.3563
0.71073
5.031
3.9317
0.71073
7.957
3.7798
˚
l
m
(A)
0.71073
7.513
(mmꢀ1
)
GOF indicatora
0.984
1.046
1.033
b
R1
0.034
0.022
0.029
3.1. Crystal structure of NO2SbF6
c
wR2
0.088
0.055
0.067
a
GOF = [
S
w(F02 ꢀ Fc2)2/(No ꢀ Np)]1/2, where No = no. of reflns and Np = no. of refined
It was surprising to find that the crystal structures of NO2AsF6
and NO2SbF6 are not isotypic. The former crystallizes in the
monoclinic C2/m space group (No. 12) at 291 K [32] and the latter
in the orthorhombic Cmmm space group (No. 65) at 150 K. The
crystal structures differ in terms of the packing of the XF6 (X = As,
Sb) octahedra and the positions of the [NO2]+ cations (Fig. 1).
However, in both structures the nitrogen atoms of the [NO2]+
cations have four equal contacts to the fluorine atoms of the four
[XF6]ꢀ anions (Fig. 2).
parameters.
b
R1
=
S
jjFoj ꢀ jFcjj/ jFoj.
S
c
wR2 = [S
w(F02 ꢀ Fc2)2/S(w(F02)2]1/2
.
The O2SbF6 was synthesized by a reaction between SbF5, F2 and O2
in aHF as a solvent in the presence of a UV-source (450 W,
immersion-type photochemical lamp, Ace Glass Inc., USA).
All the atoms in NO2SbF6 occupy special positions. The oxygen
atoms of the cation lie at the 4j Wyckoff position with m2m site
symmetry, and the nitrogen atoms occupy the 2d position with
mmm symmetry. The NꢀO bond lengths in the NO2SbF6 are shorter
2.2. Crystal growth of XeF5SbF6, XeF5Sb2F11 and NO2SbF6
A T-shaped apparatus consisting of two FEP tubes (6 mm and
19 mm outer diameters) was used for the single-crystal growth.
The solids were loaded (approximately 150 mg) into the wider arm
of the crystallization vessel in a dry-box. The aHF (4 ml) was then
condensed onto the starting material at 77 K. The crystallization
mixture was brought up to ambient temperature and the clear
solution that had developed, was decanted into the narrower arm.
The evaporation of the solvent from this solution was carried out
by maintaining a temperature gradient corresponding to about
10 K between both tubes for two months. The effect of this
treatment was to enable the aHF to be slowly evaporated from the
narrower into the wider tube, leaving behind the crystals. Single
crystals of NO2SbF6 were grown during the attempt to prepare the
(NO2)(XeF)(SbF6)2 compound as in the case of Xe(VI) where
NO2XeF5(SbF6)2 [21] was synthesized. In a similar attempt to
˚
˚
(1.111(8) A at 150 K) than those in the NO2AsF6 (1.159(3) A at
291 K) [32] and are comparable to those observed in NO2Xe2F13
˚
˚
(1.10–1.12 A at 130 K) [33], (NO2)2ReF8 (1.1164 A at 125ꢀK) [34]
˚
and NO2ReOF6 (1.085–1.14 A at 132 K) [35]. The [SbF6] anion
geometry is also restricted by symmetry: each SbF6 moiety
contains only two crystallographically independent fluorine atoms
located at the 8o (m symmetry) and 4j (m2m) positions,
respectively, resulting together with the 2b (mmm) Wyckoff
position of the Sb atom in a pair of equal Sb1–F2 and four identical
Sb1–F1 bonds.
prepare unknown (H3O)XeF5(SbF6)2 by
a reaction between
H3OSbF6 and XeF5SbF6 only single crystals of the latter were
found between the powdered material. The crystallization of the
O2SbF6/XeF5SbF6 mixture yields only single crystals of XeF5Sb2F11
instead of the desired unknown O2XeF5(SbF6)2.
The crystallization products were immersed in perfluorinated
oil (Fluorchem, melting point 263 K) in a dry-box. The single
crystals were then selected from the crystallization products under
the microscope outside the dry-box and then transferred into the
cold nitrogen stream of the diffractometer.
2.3. Crystal structure determination of XeF5SbF6, XeF5Sb2F11 and
NO2SbF6
Single-crystal data for all three compounds were collected on a
Gemini A diffractometer equipped with an Atlas CCD detector,
using graphite monochromated MoK
a radiation. The data were
treated using the CrysAlis software suite program package [25].
The structures were solved with the charge-flipping method using
the Superflip [26] program (Olex crystallographic software [27])
and refined with the SHELXL-2013 [28] software, implemented in
program package WinGX. [29]. The figures were prepared using the
Fig. 1. Part of the crystal structure of NO2SbF6 (a, c) showing packing of the [NO2]+
and [SbF6]ꢀ ions. For comparison, the packing of the [NO2]+ and [AsF6]ꢀ in NO2AsF6
(b, d) is also given. [32].