A series of alumino/galloborates,
including (H3APEA)6[Al-B5O10]9·12H2O (1, APEA = N,N′-bis(3-aminopropyl)ethylenedi-amine),
(HDETA)2(H2DETA)2[AlB5O10]3 (2, DETA = diethylenetriamine),
and (H2EDAP)[GaB5O10]·H2O (3, EDAP = N-ethyl-diaminopropane),
was solvothermally
synthesized and characterized in solid-state by powder X-ray diffraction,
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, UV–vis spectroscopy,
and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. All of them feature the [MB5O10]
n
2n– (M = Al or Ga) frameworks, charge-balanced
by the long chain-like amine cations. Three frameworks exhibit different
interlinkage modes of {MB5O10} layers, resulting
in channels varying in size and shape. The flexibility of long chain-like
amine cations as well as their significant structure-directing functions
in forming these crystalline products is also discussed in detail.
Powder second-harmonic generation measurements showed that all three
compounds present a nonlinear optical property, and compound 2 exhibits type I phase-matchable optical nonlinearity.