Université de Fribourg

¹⁸²Tungsten Mössbauer spectroscopy of heteropolytungstates

Bochet, Christian G. ; Draper, Thérèse ; Bocquet, Bernard ; Pope, Michael T. ; Williams, Alan F.

In: Dalton Transaction, 2009, vol. 26, p. 5127-5131

The tungsten-182 Mössbauer spectra of a series of Keggin structure heteropolytungstates, [EW₁₂O₄₀]ⁿ⁻ are reported. There is a very considerable variation in quadrupole coupling at the tungsten nucleus indicating considerable asymmetry in the electron distribution for the more electronegative elements E. The quadrupole coupling correlates well with the structural data, in...