Cadmium-rare earth oxyborates Cd4ReO(BO3)3 (Re = Y, Gd, Lu): congruently melting compounds with large SHG responses†
Abstract
A new series of cadmium–rare earth (Re) oxyborates Cd4ReO(BO3)3 (Re = Y, Gd, Lu) have been synthesized through high-temperature solid-state reactions in platinum crucibles. In their crystal structures, ReO6 (Re = Y, Gd, Lu) and CdOn (n = 6, 8) are distorted polyhedra interconnected via shared edges and corners in a 3D framework with tunnels along the c-axis, where all B atoms are located. BO3 planar triangles lie approximately parallel to the (001) plane. The combination of triangular BO3 groups with π-conjugated systems and the d10 Cd2+