Novel ionic media for liquid lasers
Abstract
In a search for 3–5 µm lasing materials, crystals Of AlBr6Sb are isolated from a phosphorus tribromide–aluminium tribromide–antimony tribromide (PBr3–AlBr3–SbBr3) solution: this solid contains infinite chains of alternating [SbBr2]+ cations and [AlBr4]+ anions, linked by weak coordinate bonds, and represents the first structure containing the dibromostibinium(III) cation.