Two new phosphate langbeinites, Rb2YbTi(PO4)3 and Rb2Yb0.32Ti1.68(PO4)3, investigated at 293 and 150 K.

The rubidium ytterbium titanium phosphates Rb2YbTi(PO4)3, (I), and Rb2Yb(0.32)Ti(1.68)(PO4)3, (II), have been structurally characterized from X-ray data collected at both 293 and 150 K. Compound (II) is blue owing to the presence of mixed-valence titanium (41% Ti3+ + 59% Ti4+). Both (I) and (II) belong to the langbeinite structure type, with mixed Yb/Ti populations in the two crystallographically independent octahedral sites (of symmetry 3). Ytterbium favours one of these sites, where about two-thirds of the Yb atoms are found. The O-atom displacement parameters are large in both compounds at both temperatures.

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