Self-Assembly of Microporous Thiogermanate Frameworks
Mark J. MacLachlan, Robert W. J. Scott, Geoffrey A. Ozin, and Douglas F. McIntosh Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3H6, Canada
A safe undergraduate laboratory experiment involving the synthesis of microporous metal germanium sulfide materials under aqueous, room-temperature conditions is described. It introduces students to the synthetic methods of self-assembly and solid-state chemistry. The products are characterized by powder X-ray diffraction and vibrational spectroscopy.
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Demonstrator notes, answers to lab questions, and figures are included.
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