Na6[TeMo6O24]·22 H2O – A Layered Heteropoly Compound with the Chain-Like Polycation {Na3(Η2O)1111}n3n+
Colourless triclinic single crystals of Na6[TeMo6O24] · 22 H2O were grown from aqueous solution (space group P 1, a = 1030.89(9), b = 1056.7(1), c = 1106.32(9) pm, α = 90.120(7), β = 115.220(6), γ = 105.195(7), Ζ = 1, 295 Κ, 336 parameters, 3181 reflections, Rg = 0.0186). There are three crystallographically independent Na+ cations. Two of them are coordinated octahedrally by water molecules only. The third Na+ cation is bound to five H2O and one oxygen atom (O(4)) belonging to the Anderson-Evans type anion [TeMo6O24]6-. The sodium-centered coordination octahedra are linked by common edges exclusively formed by water molecules to yield chain-like polycations {Na3(H2O)11}n,3n+ which are bound by the Na(1)-O(4) contact to the anions situated on crystallographic centers of inversion forming a layer-like arrangement. Further connections between the polycations and the [TeMo6O24]6- anions are established by hydrogen bonds involving all the oxygen atoms of the anion except O(4) as almost equivalent proton acceptors regardless of their bonding mode to Te or Mo.