Solvent-free synthesis of new inorganic–organic hybrid solids with finely tuned manganese oxalate structures

Abstract

Three manganese phosphate-oxalates have been synthesized under solvent-free conditions. These inorganic–organic hybrid solids are based on a pcu-type topology with nanobelt-like, sql-, and cds-type manganese oxalate skeletons, respectively. The amine molecules play a novel structure-directing role for the formation of different metal–organic skeletons within a specific framework topology.