Abstract
The high-pressure manganese borate α-MnB2O4 was synthesized under high-pressure/hightemperature conditions of 6.5 GPa and 1100 ◦C in a modified Walker-type multianvil apparatus. The monoclinic compound is isotypic to α-FeB2O4, CaAl2O4-II, CaGa2O4, andβ -SrGa2O4 crystallizing with eight formula units in the space group P21/c (Z = 8) with the lattice parameters a = 712.1(2), b = 747.1(2), c = 878.8(2) pm, β = 94.1(1)◦, V = 0.466(1) nm3, R1 = 0.0326, and wR2 = 0.0652 (all data). The compound is built up from layers of “sechser” rings of corner-sharing BO4 tetrahedra that are interconnected to a three-dimensional network. The manganese ions are coordinated by seven oxygen atoms and situated in channels along the a axis.
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