Manganese (V) in oxide and oxyfluoride frameworks published in Chemistry of Materials

We report herein new oxides and oxyfluorides built on the apatite crystal framework and hosting Mn⁵⁺, a rare oxidation state of manganese, very scarcely observed in oxides. We take the opportunity of isolating these new solids to provide the first spectroscopic characterization of Mn⁵⁺ by EELS and to show the significant ionic conductivity of these solids.

This work was hosted by the department of Solid State Chemistry of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. A strongly collaborative work with the RMES group of LCMCP lab, the Solid-State Chemistry and Energy Lab at Collège de France, and ILL at Grenoble.

Hydroxyapatites as Versatile Inorganic Hosts of Unusual Pentavalent Manganese Cations, A. Varela, I. Gómez-Recio, L. Serrador, M. Hernando, E. Matesanz, A. Torres-Pardo, M. T. Fernández-Díaz, J. L. Martínez, F. Gonell, G. Rousse, C. Sanchez, C. Laberty-Robert, D. Portehault, J. M. González-Calbet, M. Parras, Chemistry of Materials, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c03673