A. Lund et al., X-RAY-ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF THE ALPO4-5 - FERROCENE INCLUSION COMPOUND AND ITS THERMALLY DECOMPOSED PRODUCTS, Journal of materials chemistry, 4(11), 1994, pp. 1723-1730
The synthesis and decomposition of an inclusion compound, AlPO4:Fe(C5H
5)2 is reported. This, and the decomposition products have been charac
terised by extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy. The
clustering of iron atoms either through Fe-Fe or Fe-O-Fe interactions
is shown to be absent. Instead, Fe(III) is sited within the double 6-r
ings of the 12-ring system. A model for distortions of the local latti
ce about Fe(III) is proposed.