A new family of Silicate phases, Cs2MSisOi2: M = Be, Mg, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, Cd; RbzMSijOiz: M = Mg, Fe, (Co, Zn) has been prepared with the cubic polludte structure, a in the ränge 13.3 to 13.8 A, Space group Idid, Z = 8. The structure of one, Rb2MgSisOi2, has been refined to R 10.8% using X-ray powder data. The structures are built of a 3D, [MSi50i2]^~ framework containing large, 12-coordinated cavities for the alkali cations. These structures are unusual in that a wide ränge of divalent cations have pardally replaced Si"^"^ in the Silicate anion framework.
IntrodoctionPolludte, CsAlSi206, is a framework aluminosilicate containing large, 12-coordinated cavities suitable for occupation by Cs"^ ions (Strunz, 1936; Naray-Szabo, 1938;Newnham, 1967). The unit cell is cubic with space group läid, Z = 16. Similar alumino-silicate frameworks are present in analdte, NaAlSizOe • H2O and leudte, KAlSi206 (Taylor, 1938;Beattie, 1954;Knowles et al., 1965;Wyart, 1941;Deer et al., 1963; Wyckoff, 1968), although leudte is tetragonal below 605° (Wyart, 1941;Deer et al., 1963; Wyckoff, 1968).Structxu-al studies on these phases are complicated by the occurrence of twinning in tetragonal leudte ^azzi et al., 1976) and by Si, AI disorder in the aluminosilicate framework. Various analogues of polludte and leudte, containing other trivalent ions instead of Al^"^ have been reported: Fepolludte, CsFeSi206 (Kopp et al., 1963;Kume and Koizumi, 1965), FeBrought to you by |