(K,Na)2[AsB6O12]2[B3O3(OH)3], a New Microporous Material, and Its Comparison to Teruggite

Pankova, Yulia A.; Krivovichev, Sergey V.

doi:10.3390/min9120781

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(K,Na)₂[AsB₆O₁₂]₂[B₃O₃(OH)₃], a New Microporous Material, and Its Comparison to Teruggite

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Yulia A. Pankova

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Sergey V. Krivovichev

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Department of Crystallography, Institute of Earth Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, University Emb. 7/9, 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Laboratory of Nature-Inspired Technologies and Environmental Safety of the Arctic, Kola Science Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Fersmana 14, 184209 Apatity, Russia

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Nanomaterials Research Center, Federal Research Center, Kola Science Center, RAS, Fersmana Str. 14, 184209 Apatity, Russia

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Minerals 2019, 9(12), 781; https://doi.org/10.3390/min9120781

Submission received: 12 November 2019 / Revised: 7 December 2019 / Accepted: 10 December 2019 / Published: 13 December 2019

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the XIX International Meeting on Crystal Chemistry, X-ray Diffraction and Spectroscopy of Minerals)

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Single crystals of the novel boroarsenate (K,Na)₂[As₂B₁₂O₂₄][B₃O₃(OH)₃] (I) were obtained using the borax flux method. The crystal structure of I was found to be triclinic, P-1, a = 8.414(5), b = 10.173(6), c = 15.90(1) Å, α = 79.56(1), β = 78.68(1), γ = 70.91(1), V = 1251(1) Å³, Z = 2. The crystal structure of I is based upon the novel [AsB₆O₁₂]⁻ microporous boroarsenate framework formed by B and As coordination polyhedra. This framework can be subdivided into borate units that are interlinked by AsO₄ tetrahedra. In the case of I, the borate substructure is a chain consisting of triborate rings, ☐2Δ, formed by two (BO₃) triangles and one (BO₄) tetrahedron connected through shared common oxygen atoms. The chains are extended along [0

\bar{1}

1] and are interlinked by (AsO₄) tetrahedra in the [011] direction. As a result, the framework has large channels parallel to [100], having an effective diameter of 4.2 × 5.6 Å². The channels contain occluded electroneutral ring triborate complexes, [B₃O₃(OH)₃]⁰, formed by three (BO₂(OH⁻))⁻ triangles sharing common O atoms, as well as K⁺ and Na⁺ cations. The triborate [B₃O₃(OH)₃]⁰ units correspond to similar clusters found in the crystal structure of the α-form of metaboric acid, HBO₂. According to information-based complexity calculations, the crystal structure of I should be described as complex, with I_G = 5.781 bits/atom and I_G,total = 625.950 bits/cell. Teruggite, Ca₄Mg[B₆As(OH)₆O₁₁]₂(H₂O)₁₄, the only known boroarsenate of natural origin, has almost twice as much information per unit cell, with I_G,total = 1201.992 bits/cell. The observed difference in structural complexity between I and teruggite is the consequence of their chemistry (hydration state) and different formation conditions.

Keywords:

crystal structure; boroarsenate; microporous framework; structural complexity; Shannon information; terrugite

1. Introduction

Borophosphates and metalloborophosphates constitute an important, chemically and structurally rich family of boron compounds, with more than 220 different structural architectures having been reported to date. The first systematic approach to the structural chemistry of borophosphates was proposed by Kniep et al. [1], who used the dimensionality of complex anions, the B/P ratio, and the type of fundamental building blocks as classification criteria. Later, as the number of compounds steadily grew, the systematics was refined further, additionally taking into account the type of boron polyhedra ((BO₄) tetrahedra and/or (BO₃) triangles), the degree of protonation (ratio O/OH), and the method of synthesis [2,3]. In contrast to borophosphates, the number of boroarsenates is much smaller, with around a dozen of compounds reported to date [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11]. Such limited number compared to that of borophosphates is undoubtedly due to the toxicity of arsenic, which drastically restricts the possible technological applications of boroarsenates. It is, however, interesting that no borophosphates sensu stricto (i.e., compounds containing polyions of linked B and P polyhedra) have been reported as minerals, whereas there is one natural boroarsenate—teruggite, Ca₄Mg[B₆As(OH)₆O₁₁]₂(H₂O)₁₄—that was first found in the Loma Blanca borate deposit in the province of Jujuy, Argentina [12]. Later, the mineral was also reported from the Emet borate deposits in Turkey [13] and the El Tatio geothermal field in Chile [14]. In all cases, the formation of teruggite was associated with the activity of borate-rich thermal springs. The crystal structure of teruggite was determined using the crystal from the Emet deposit and was reported as being based upon 0-dimensional [B₆As(OH)₆O₁₁]⁵⁻ units, consisting of four (BO₄) tetrahedra, two (BO₃) triangles, and one (AsO₄) tetrahedron [15]. It should be noted that there are other minerals that contain both B and As (such as cahnite, Ca₂[B(OH)₄](AsO₄) [16]) or B and P (such as seamanite, Mn₃[B(OH)₄](PO₄)(OH)₂ [17,18,19]), but in their structures, no linkage exists between BO_n and TO₄ polyhedra (n = 3, 4; T = P, As).

The aim of this study is to report on the synthesis and crystal structure of (K,Na)₂[AsB₆O₁₂]₂[B₃O₃(OH)₃] (I), a new microporous compound, which is the first boroarsenate containing occluded electroneutral [B₃O₃(OH)₃]⁰ moieties within its framework channels. We also describe the relations of I to teruggite, the only natural boroarsenate.

2. Materials and Methods

2.1. Synthesis

The crystals of I were prepared using boric acid as a flux in a closed system. The mixture of Cu(CH₃COO)₂, Na(CH₃COO)·3H₂O, KH₂AsO₄, and H₃BO₃ taken in the ratio of 1:1:1:20, was ground in an agate mortar. The resulting mixture, together with 100 μL of distilled water, was placed into a stainless-steel autoclave with teflon liner. The autoclave was held at a temperature of 200 °C and autogenous pressure for 7 days and then cooled to room temperature. Needle-shaped, transparent, colorless crystals were found on the surface of the melt, which consisted of H₃BO₃ and some amount of CuB₂O₄ crystals. Semiquantitative chemical analysis using SEM (S-3400N, Hitachi, Tokyo, Japan) indicated the absence in I of any other element heavier than O, except K, Na, and As. Several crystals were selected for further crystal structure determination using an optical microscope.

2.2. Crystal Structure Analysis

Several crystals of I selected for data collection were mounted on a Bruker APEX II DUO X-ray diffractometer (Karlsruhe, Germany) operated at 50 kV and 40 mA and equipped with the IμS microfocus source. More than a hemisphere of three-dimensional data was collected for each crystal using monochromatic MoK_α X-radiation. From several datasets, one was chosen that demonstrated more or less reliable data, whereas others were neglected due to their poor quality. The unit-cell parameters (Table 1) were refined using the least-squares techniques. The intensity data were integrated and corrected for Lorentz, polarization, and background effects using the Bruker programs APEX and XPREP. An analytical multiscan absorption correction was performed using the Bruker program SADABS. The observed systematic absences were consistent with the space group P

\bar{1}

. The crystal structure was solved and refined using the SHELX program package, which was used for all structural calculations [20]. The refinement converged to R₁ = 0.061 on the basis of 3436 unique observed reflections. No H atoms could be found, due to the observed alkali metal cation disorder in the framework cavities (see below). The final atomic coordinates and isotropic displacement parameters are given in Table 2, and selected interatomic distances are in Table 3. Anisotropic displacement parameters and other details of the data collection and structure refinement are available as a Crystallographic Information File (CIF) included as Supplementary Materials.

2.3. Structural Complexity Calculations

The structural complexity parameters for I and other boroarsenates and borophosphates were estimated as follows. The amounts of structural Shannon information per atom (^strI_G) and per unit cell (^strI_G,total) were calculated using the approach developed by Krivovichev [21,22,23,24] according to the following equations:

^{str} I_{G} = - \sum_{i = 1}^{k} p_{i} \log_{2} p_{i} (bits / atom)

(1)

^{str} I_{G} = - v \sum_{i = 1}^{k} p_{i} \log_{2} p_{i} (bits / cell)

(2)

where k is the number of different crystallographic orbits (independent crystallographic Wyckoff sites) in the structure, and p_i is calculated according to the formula:

p_i = m_i/v

(3)

where m_i is a multiplicity of a crystallographic orbit (i.e., the number of atoms of a specific Wyckoff site in the reduced unit cell), and v is the total number of atoms in the reduced unit cell.

In total, 237 crystal structures of borophosphates and boroarsenates were analyzed from the viewpoint of their information-based structural complexity (see Supplementary Materials). All structure complexity calculations were performed by means of the TOPOS program package developed by Blatov et al. [25].

3. Results

Structure Description

The crystal structure of I was found to be based upon the novel [AsB₆O₁₂]⁻ microporous boroarsenate framework (Figure 1) formed by B and As coordination polyhedra. As is usual for borophosphates and boroarsenates [1,2,3], the framework can be subdivided into borate units that are interlinked by AsO₄ tetrahedra. In the case of I, the borate substructure is a chain consisting of triborate rings, ☐2Δ, formed by two (BO₃) triangles and one (BO₄) tetrahedron connected through shared common oxygen atoms (Figure 2). The chains are extended along [0

\bar{1}

1] and are interlinked by (AsO₄) tetrahedra in the [011] direction (Figure 3). As a result, the framework has large channels parallel to [100], having the absolute diameter of 6.9 × 8.3 Å² or an effective diameter of 4.2 × 5.6 Å², taking into account the average radius of the O²⁻ anion equal to 1.35 Å. The channels are large enough to contain occluded electroneutral ring triborate complexes, [B₃O₃(OH)₃]⁰, formed by three (BO₂(OH))⁻ triangles sharing common O atoms, as well as K⁺ and Na⁺ cations.

There are two independent As sites in the crystal structure of I, which are coordinated tetrahedrally, with the average <As1–O> and <As2–O> distances equal to 1.676 and 1.674 Å, respectively. These values are slightly shorter than the average value of 1.685 Å reported for arsenate minerals by Majzlan et al. [26]. There are 14 crystallographically independent B sites in the crystal structure of I. The B1–B12 atoms belong to the chains of triborate groups, whereas the B13 and B14 atoms constitute diborate complexes. The B3, B5, B10, and B12 atoms are tetrahedrally coordinated (and denoted as B^☐), with the average <B^☐–O> bond lengths in the range of 1.462–1.473 Å. The rest of the B atoms are triangularly coordinated (B^∆), with the average <B^∆–O> lengths for the B atoms of triborate groups varying from 1.359 to 1.371 Å. The average <B–O> bond lengths are in general agreement with the average values of 1.370 and 1.476 Å given for (BO₃) and (BO₄) groups, respectively, by Hawthorne et al. [27]. The average <B^∆–O> lengths for the intersitial triborate complexes are 1.379, 1.356, and 1.371 Å for B13, B14, and B15, respectively. The rather unusual observed values are undoubtedly the result of the high mobility of the triborate units. The isotropic displacement parameters for their O atoms are approximately two times higher than those of the framework O atoms, and the same was also observed for the B atoms (Table 3). Filatov and Bubnova [28] analyzed variations of B–O bond lengths for the ☐2Δ triborate groups in inorganic borates. They distinguished two types of bridging O atoms in these groups: O atoms shared between two (BO₃) triangles, ^∆O^∆, and O atoms shared between (BO₃) triangle and (BO₄) tetrahedron, ^∆O^☐. Accordingly, there are three types of B–O bonds to bridging O atoms: B^∆–^∆O^∆, B^∆–^∆O^☐, and B^☐–^∆O^☐. The average bond distances for these bonds are 1.374, 1.347, and 1.471 Å [28]. For the crystal structure of I, the analogous parameters were determined as (variations of individual bond lengths are given in brackets): 1.382 (1.370–1.393), 1.339 (1.330–1.352), and 1.451 (1.440–1.461) Å, respectively. These values are in agreement with the general tendency of bond-length variations described in [28].

The crystal structure contains a total of four alkali metal sites: one K, two Na, and one with mixed K–Na occupancy. The K1/Na1 site has a sevenfold coordination with the Me–O bond lengths (Me = Na, K) in the range of 2.487–3.093 Å. The coordination numbers for the K2 and K3 sites (occupation factors of 0.58 and 0.23, respectively) are eight and six, respectively, with average Me–O distances of 2.966 and 3.106 Å, respectively. The Na2 site (with 19% occupancy) is coordinated by five O atoms with the Me–O distances in the range of 2.58–2.98 Å.

4. Discussion

The construction of the boroarsenate framework agrees well with the bond-valence matching principle formulated by Hawthorne [29]. The linkage between As and B polyhedra involves tetrahedrally coordinated As⁵⁺ and B³⁺, since the ^[4]As⁵⁺–O and ^[4]B³⁺–O average bond valences are equal to 1.25 and 0.75 valence units (v.u.), which provides a perfect matching for the valence saturation of O²⁻ anions (1.25 + 0.75 = 2.00 v.u.).

The triborate [B₃O₃(OH)₃]⁰ units located in the framework cavities of the boroarsenate framework in I correspond to the similar clusters found in the crystal structure of the α-form of metaboric acid, HBO₂ [30].

According to the information-based complexity calculations, the crystal structure of I should be described as complex, with I_G = 5.781 bits/atom and I_G,total = 625.950 bits/cell (after the procedure of H-correction that takes into account the presence of H atoms [31]). It is of interest that teruggite, Ca₄Mg[B₆As(OH)₆O₁₁]₂(H₂O)₁₄, the only known boroarsenate of natural origin, has almost twice as much information per unit cell, with I_G,total = 1201.992 bits/cell.

As mentioned above, the crystal structure of teruggite [15] is based upon planar 0-dimensional [B₆As(OH)₆O₁₁]⁵⁻ units, consisting of four (BO₄) tetrahedra, two (BO₃) triangles, and one (AsO₄) tetrahedron (Figure 4a), which share one common O atom with the peripheral (BO₄) tetrahedron (Figure 4b,c). The structure of teruggite contains two symmetrically independent Ca atoms coordinated by eight O atoms each. The CaO₈ polyhedra link the boroarsenate units into a three-dimensional open framework with channels that are extended along the c axis and accommodate isolated Mg(H₂O)₆ octahedra. The high structural complexity of teruggite is due to the presence of rather large finite-cluster units and high hydration states (14 H₂O molecules per formula unit). The observed difference in structural complexity between I and teruggite is the consequence of their chemistry (hydration state) and different formation conditions. Teruggite was crystallized from low-temperature borate-rich aqueous solutions, whereas I was obtained from boric acid flux at 200 °C.

Supplementary Materials

The following are available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/9/12/781/s1.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, methodology, investigation, Y.A.P. and S.V.K.; formal analysis, visualization, Y.A.P.; writing-original draft preparation, S.V.K.; writing-review and editing, S.V.K.

Funding

This research was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant No. 17-05-01027) and the President of Russian Federation grant for leading scientific schools (NSh-3079.2018.5).

Acknowledgments

The single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments were performed in the X-ray Diffraction Resource Center of St. Petersburg State University.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. The crystal structure of I is based upon a complex heteropolyhedral framework formed by B and As polyhedra.

Figure 2. The borate structural units in I: the [B₁₂O₂₄]¹²⁻ chain (a) and the B-O skeleton of the protonated triborate unit, [B₃O₃(OH)₃]⁰ (b).

Figure 3. The microporous boroarsenate framework in the crystal structure of I, composed of chains of boron polyhedra interlinked by AsO₄ tetrahedra.

Figure 4. The crystal structure of teruggite (a) and the [B₆As(OH)₆O₁₁]⁵⁻ unit shown in polyhedral (b) and ball-and-stick (c) representations.

Table 1. Crystal data and structure refinement parameters for I.

Crystallographic Data
Crystal system	triclinic
Space group	P $\bar{1}$
a, b, c [Å], α, β, γ [°], V [Å³]	8.414(5), 10.173(6), 15.90(1), 79.56(1), 78.68(1), 70.91(1), 1251(1)
Z	2
Crystal density (g/cm³)	2.609
Absorption coefficient (mm⁻¹)	9.039
Crystal size/mm³	0.37 × 0.07 × 0.05
Data Collection Parameters
Radiation type, wavelength	MoK_α, 0.71073
2θ angles range, deg.	5.18−59.422
Index ranges	−9 ≤ h ≤ 11 −14 ≤ k ≤ 14 −22 ≤ l ≤ 22
Reflections collected	21,483
Independent reflections	7031 [R_int = 0.1044, R_sigma = 0.1203]
Observed reflections (>4σ F_σ)	3436
Structure Refinement Parameters
Refinement method	Full-matrix least-square analysis of F²
Weight coefficients a, b	0.0686, 4.5654
R₁ [F > 4σ(F)], wR₂ [F > 4σ (F)]	0.061, 0.144
R₁ [all data], wR₂ [all data]	0.148, 0.184
S	0.954
ρ_max, ρ_min, e·Å⁻³	1.611/−0.923

Table 2. Atomic coordinates, isotropic displacement parameters (Å²) and site-occupation factors (s.o.f.) for I.

Atom	s.o.f.	x	y	z	U^eq
As1	As	0.25014(8)	0.49578(7)	0.00236(4)	0.0163(2)
As2	As	0.75034(8)	0.99316(7)	−0.49276(5)	0.01621(19)
O1	O	0.3335(6)	0.5060(5)	0.0872(3)	0.0217(11)
O2	O	0.1062(5)	0.6462(5)	−0.0285(3)	0.0222(11)
O3	O	0.3657(6)	1.4531(5)	−0.5439(3)	0.0268(12)
O4	O	0.2601(7)	0.9363(5)	−0.0505(3)	0.0306(13)
O5	O	1.0757(6)	0.8610(5)	−0.6022(3)	0.0216(11)
O6	O	0.4249(6)	1.2178(5)	−0.4820(3)	0.0205(11)
O7	O	0.6068(6)	1.0206(5)	−0.4031(3)	0.0207(10)
O8	O	0.8969(5)	0.8423(5)	−0.4651(3)	0.0191(10)
O9	O	0.3925(5)	0.4690(5)	−0.0881(3)	0.0208(11)
O10	O	0.1523(6)	1.6571(5)	−0.4957(3)	0.0224(11)
O11	O	0.2096(7)	1.3482(5)	−0.2455(3)	0.0335(13)
O12	O	0.1311(6)	1.1568(5)	0.0042(3)	0.0191(10)
O13	O	0.8288(6)	1.1271(5)	−0.5304(3)	0.0225(11)
O14	O	0.6672(6)	0.9855(5)	−0.5787(3)	0.0214(11)
O15	O	0.3531(6)	1.1589(5)	−0.3274(3)	0.0188(10)
O16	O	0.1708(6)	0.3611(5)	0.0384(3)	0.0226(11)
O17	O	0.2105(8)	1.1404(5)	−0.1467(4)	0.0401(15)
O18	O	0.2996(7)	1.6575(5)	−0.6402(3)	0.0325(14)
O19	O	0.3999(6)	0.7169(5)	0.0147(3)	0.0188(10)
O20	O	0.3694(6)	0.6635(5)	0.1718(3)	0.0206(11)
O21	O	0.1692(7)	0.8373(6)	0.2533(3)	0.0411(16)
O22	O	0.0972(6)	1.3666(5)	−0.1012(3)	0.0204(11)
O23	O	0.2027(8)	0.8791(6)	0.1037(3)	0.0446(17)
O24	O	0.2877(7)	1.3955(6)	−0.3928(3)	0.0388(15)
O25	O	0.3380(10)	0.3253(8)	0.2813(5)	0.068(2)
O26	O	0.9331(10)	0.6982(8)	−0.2753(5)	0.063(2)
O27	O	0.9550(11)	0.8431(9)	−0.1848(5)	0.081(3)
O28	O	0.6844(10)	0.8290(9)	−0.1912(5)	0.074(3)
O29	O	0.9103(10)	0.5445(8)	−0.3663(5)	0.068(2)
O30	O	0.4197(12)	0.7913(11)	−0.1968(6)	0.094(3)
B1	B	0.2687(10)	1.5892(8)	−0.5574(5)	0.0209(16)
B2	B	0.2880(11)	0.8440(9)	0.0233(5)	0.0264(19)
B3	B	0.4267(9)	0.6100(8)	0.0890(5)	0.0155(16)
B4	B	0.1974(10)	1.0816(8)	−0.0615(5)	0.0240(18)
B5	B	0.4276(9)	1.1083(9)	−0.4103(5)	0.0213(18)
B6	B	0.3588(10)	1.3549(8)	−0.4728(5)	0.0201(17)
B7	B	0.2508(11)	0.7894(9)	0.1775(5)	0.0260(19)
B8	B	0.1747(10)	1.2836(9)	−0.1631(6)	0.0247(19)
B9	B	0.2870(10)	1.2944(9)	−0.3215(5)	0.0244(18)
B10	B	1.0748(10)	0.8074(8)	−0.5110(5)	0.0197(18)
B11	B	1.1827(11)	0.7849(9)	−0.6624(5)	0.0245(19)
B12	B	−0.0751(9)	0.6896(8)	0.0104(5)	0.0163(16)
B13	B	0.1662(15)	0.3618(11)	0.3052(8)	0.045(3)
B14	B	0.8542(14)	0.7964(14)	−0.2181(7)	0.047(3)
B15	B	0.5874(14)	0.7803(15)	−0.2237(7)	0.051(3)
K1/Na1	K_0.43Na_0.57	0.8373(4)	0.0355(4)	0.2656(2)	0.0725(16)
K2	K_0.58	0.5869(8)	0.4469(5)	0.2792(3)	0.0823(17)
K3	K_0.23	0.717(2)	0.3281(17)	0.3281(13)	0.108(5)
Na2	Na_0.19	0.771(3)	0.415(2)	0.2168(16)	0.055(6)

Table 3. Selected interatomic distances (Å) in the crystal structure of I.

As1–O1	1.671(5)	As2–O13	1.670(5)	B1–O10	1.352(9)
As1–O2	1.673(5)	As2–O8	1.673(4)	B1-–O3	1.360(9)
As1–O16	1.678(5)	As2–O14	1.677(5)	B1–O18	1.392(9)
As1–O9	1.682(5)	As2–O7	1.678(4)	<B1–O>	1.368
<As1–O>	1.676	<As2–O>	1.674
				B4–O12	1.330(9)
B2–O19	1.340(10)	B3–O20	1.450(9)	B4–O17	1.378(9)
B2–O4	1.371(9)	B3–O19	1.453(8)	B4–O4	1.388(9)
B2–O23	1.385(10)	B3–O9	1.468(8)	<B4–O>	1.365
<B2–O>	1.365	B3–O1	1.516(9)
		<B3–O>	1.472	B7–O20	1.347(9)
B5–O6	1.441(9)			B7–O21	1.355(10)
B5–O15	1.452(9)	B6–O6	1.345(9)	B7–O23	1.388(9)
B5–O14	1.480(10)	B6–O24	1.371(9)	<B7–O>	1.363
B5–O7	1.494(9)	B6–O3	1.372(8)
<B5–O>	1.467	<B6–O>	1.363	B10–O10	1.448(9)
				B10–O5	1.454(9)
B8–O22	1.340(10)	B9–O15	1.321(9)	B10–O8	1.489(8)
B8–O17	1.373(9)	B9–O11	1.372(10)	B10–O13	1.502(10)
B8–O11	1.379(9)	B9–O24	1.387(9)	<B10–O>	1.473
<B8-O>	1.364	<B9-O>	1.360
				B13–O25	1.362(13)
B11–O5	1.342(9)	B12–O22	1.454(8)	B13–O26	1.375(14)
B11–O21	1.362(9)	B12–O12	1.465(9)	B13–O29	1.399(13)
B11–O18	1.381(9)	B12–O16	1.475(9)	<B13–O>	1.379
<B11–O>	1.362	B12–O2	1.481(8)
		<B12–O>	1.469	K1/Na1–O27	2.487(10)
B14–O27	1.325(14)			K1/Na1–O30	2.591(10)
B14–O28	1.355(13)	B15–O28	1.305(14)	K1/Na1–O14	2.659(6)
B14–O26	1.387(13)	B15–O30	1.366(13)	K1/Na1–O21	2.854(6)
<B14–O>	1.356	B15–O25	1.441(15)	K1/Na1–O15	2.861(6)
		<B15–O>	1.371	K1/Na1–O17	2.989(7)
K2–O25	2.751(10)			K1/Na1–O5	3.093(6)
K2–O20	2.890(7)	K3–O26	2.832(18)	<K1/Na1–O>	2.791
K2–O18	2.910(7)	K3–O13	2.834(17)
K2–O30	2.977(11)	K3–O10	3.119(18)	Na2–O9	2.58(2)
K2–O9	2.991(7)	K3–O24	3.150(19)	Na2–O11	2.60(2)
K2–O11	3.022(7)	K3–O30	3.15(2)	Na2–O26	2.65(2)
K2–O3	3.051(7)	K3–O3	3.260(19)	Na2–O27	2.92(2)
K2–O24	3.139(8)	<K3–O>	3.106	Na2–O22	2.98(2)
<K2–O>	2.966			<Na2–O>	2.746

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