Surfactant-Thermal Synthesis of Amino Acid-Templated Zinc Phosphates with 3-Connected Nets Related to Zeolite ABW

Inorg Chem. 2019 Apr 1;58(7):4089-4092. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00391. Epub 2019 Mar 12.

Abstract

Two crystalline zinc phosphates, formulated as Zn(HPO4)(dl-C5H9NO2) (SCU-3) and Zn(HPO4)(C2H5NO2) (SCU-10), were prepared under surfactant-thermal conditions using amino acids as structure-directing agents. Different from traditional zeolites with 4-connected nets, the two compounds have different 3-connected nets related to zeolite ABW. Powder second-harmonic-generation (SHG) measurement shows that SCU-10 is a nonlinear optically active solid with an SHG efficiency about 1.4 times that of KH2PO4.