Ternary alkali metal transition metal acetylides A2MC2 (A = Na, K; M = Pd, Pt).

Ternary transition metal acetylides A2MC2 (A = Na, K; M = Pd, Pt) can be synthesised by reaction of the respective alkali metal acetylide A2C2 with palladium or platinum in an inert atmosphere at about 350 degrees C. The crystal structures are characterised by (infinity)1[M(C2)(2/2)2-] chains, which are separated by the alkali metals (P3m1, Z = 1). The refinement of neutron powder diffraction data gave C-C = 1.263(3) A for Na2PdC2 (Na2PtC2: 1.289(4) A), which is distinctively longer than the expected value for a C-C triple bond (1.20 A). On the basis of band-structure calculations this can be attributed to a strong back-bonding from the metal into the anti-bonding orbitals of the C2 unit. This was further confirmed by Raman spectroscopic investigations, which showed that the wavenumbers of the C-C stretching vibrations in Na2PdC2 and Na2PtC2 are about 100 cm(-1) smaller than in acetylene. 13C MAS-NMR spectra demonstrated that the acetylenic C2 units in the title compounds are very different from those in acetylene. Electrical conductivity measurements and band-structure calculations showed that the black title compounds are semiconductors with a small indirect band gap (approximately 0.2 eV).

Multinuclear MAS NMR study of the microporous aluminophosphate AlPO4-17 and the related silicoaluminophosphate SAPO-17.

AlPO4-17 and SAPO-17 in their as-synthesized, calcined, and calcined and subsequently rehydrated forms have been studied by 27Al and 31P MAS NMR. Pronounced structural changes caused by template removal and rehydration can unambiguously be attributed to a change in the coordination number (on calcination: 5-->4, on rehydration/dehydration: 4<-->6) of part of the framework aluminium atoms. The different resonance lines can be assigned to crystallographically inequivalent sites present in the modified ERI framework. 27Al quadrupolar coupling parameters of the two aluminium sites in the calcined AlPO4-17 (CQ = 4.4 MHz and 2.1 MHz) were determined by recording spectra at different field strengths. The isotropic chemical shifts were obtained from rotation sidebands of the (+/- 3/2, +/- 1/2) satellite transitions. 2D 27Al nutation MAS NMR was used to corroborate the line assignment for the as-synthesized and the rehydrated AlPO4-17. By using 13C MAS NMR it was shown that the occluded template (cyclohexylamine) is present as ions. For the first time, a splitting of the 29Si NMR line caused by crystallographically inequivalent sites in a SAPO-type material is reported. The line splitting of 4.3 ppm is comparable with that observed for isostructural aluminosilicate erionite.