Synthesis and Structure of Pb[C2O5]: An Inorganic Pyrocarbonate Salt.

We have synthesized Pb[C2O5], an inorganic pyrocarbonate salt, in a laser-heated diamond anvil cell (LH-DAC) at 30 GPa by heating a Pb[CO3] + CO2 mixture to ≈2000(200) K. Inorganic pyrocarbonates contain isolated [C2O5]2- groups without functional groups attached. The [C2O5]2- groups consist of two oxygen-sharing [CO3]3- groups. Pb[C2O5] was characterized by synchrotron-based single-crystal structure refinement, Raman spectroscopy, and density functional theory calculations. Pb[C2O5] is isostructural to Sr[C2O5] and crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P21/c with Z = 4. The synthesis of Pb[C2O5] demonstrates that, just like in other carbonates, cation substitution is possible and that therefore inorganic pyrocarbonates are a novel family of carbonates, in addition to the established sp2 and sp3 carbonates.

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