Racemic isopropanolamine templated synthesis of a 2-dimensional layered compound Al3P4O16 center dot [NH3CH2CH(OH)CH3](2) center dot [NH4] from various non-aqueous solvents

A 2D layered aluminophosphate Al3P4O26 [NH3CH2CH(OH)CH3](2) [NH4] containin g [NH3CH2CH(OH)CH3](+) and [NH4](+) cations has been synthesized using race mic isopropanolamine as the template from several different non-aqueous sol vents, The compound has been characterized by single-crystal structure anal ysis. Its space group is P2(1)/m with a= 0.899 81(6) nm, b=1. 478 80(10) nm , c= 0. 973 72(7) nmr beta =104. 790(2)degrees and V=1. 252 74(15) nm(3). T he structure consists of [Al3P4O16](3-) macroanionic sheers stacked in an A AAA sequence and two types of cations, racemic [NH3CH2CH(OH)CH3](+) and [NH 4](+), are located between the inorganic layers. The individual macroanioni c sheet contains AlO4 and PO4 tetrahedral units in the ratio of 3/4 and all the AlO4 vertices are shared, but each PO4 has one terminal P = O group, A dditional characterization of the compound by XRD, FTIR , ICP and TGA is al so described.