Low-temperature synthetic route based on the amorphous nature of giant species for preparation of lower valence oxides

We examined low-temperature synthetic route based on the amorphous nature of giant species to succeed to prepare Cs blue bronze (Cs0.3MoO3), which has never obtained by usual high-temperature methods, at ca. 680 K. Solid solutions (K1−xRbx)0.28MoO3 and (Li1−xNax)0.9Mo6O17 were also obtained at lower temperatures (ca. 670 K). For the latter system consisting of non-isostructural end members, Li0.9Mo6O17-structure type solid solution was formed even when image, unlike the case by the usual high-temperature methods. Metastable mixed oxides Ln2Mo3O9 (Ln=La, Gd) were obtained, but not as single phases.