Designing a new family of oxonium-cation based structurally diverse organic-inorganic hybrid iodoantimonate crystals

Carbonyl functional group based several new structurally diverse iodoantimonate organic-inorganic hybrid crystals are synthesized using an in-situ formed oxonium cationic precursor. These crystals exhibit interesting optoelectronic properties consistent with the DFT calculations. Charge transfer and photoluminescence quenching between these crystals and Au nanoprticulate film are examined for potential application interest.