Abstract
Synthetic mineral libethenite Cu(2)PO(4)OH was prepared by the hydrothermal method, and its structure at 200 K was refined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The structure of Cu(2)PO(4)OH is built up from Cu2(2)O(6)(OH)2 dimers of edge-sharing Cu2O(4)(OH) trigonal bipyramids and [Cu1(2)O(6)(OH)(2)] proportional chains of edge-sharing Cu1O(4)(OH)(2) octahedra. Magnetic properties of Cu(2)PO(4)OH were investigated by magnetic susceptibility, magnetization, and specific heat measurements. Cu(2)PO(4)OH is a spin-gap system with a spin gap of about 139 K. It was shown by spin dimer analysis that, to a first approximation, the magnetic structure of Cu(2)PO(4)OH is described by an isolated square-spin cluster model defined by the Cu1-O-Cu2 superexchange J with Cu1...Cu2 = 3.429 A. The fitting analysis of the magnetic susceptibility data with a square-spin cluster model results in J/k(B) = 138 K. Specific heat data show that Cu(2)PO(4)OH does not undergo a long-range magnetic ordering down to 1.8 K. We also report vibrational properties studied with Raman spectroscopy and the thermal stability of Cu(2)PO(4)OH.
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