Abstract
Two terbium germanates have been synthesized via high-temperature and high-pressure hydrothermal synthesis with 20 M KOH as a mineralizer using Tb4O7 as a starting material. Tb13(GeO4)6O7(OH) crystallizes in trigonal space group R3̅, is built up of isolated GeO4 units, and contains a complex arrangement of terbium oxide polyhedra. K2TbGe2O7 is a terbium(4+) pyrogermanate that is isostructural with K2ZrGe2O7 and displays a rare stable Tb4+ oxidation state in the solid state.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 6044-6047 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Inorganic Chemistry |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue number | 11 |
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| State | Published - Jun 5 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |