An unusual nitride network of aluminum-centered octahedra and phosphorus-centered tetrahedra and structure determination from microcrystalline samples

Neudert, Lukas; Heinke, Frank; Bräuniger, Thomas; Pucher, Florian J.; Vaughan, Gavin B.; Öckler, Oliver; Schnick, Wolfgang (2017): An unusual nitride network of aluminum-centered octahedra and phosphorus-centered tetrahedra and structure determination from microcrystalline samples. In: Chemical Communications, Vol. 53, No. 18: pp. 2709-2712

Abstract

A new imidooxonitridophosphate AlP(6)O(3)x(NH)(3-3x)N-9 with x approximate to 0.33 was synthesized under high-pressure high-temperature conditions. The crystal structure determination of the microcrystalline product involved a combination of electron microscopy, synchrotron X-ray diffraction and solid-state NMR. In the solid there are discrete AlN6 octahedra that interconnect imidophosphate layers. The network topology is unprecedented but is related to other nitride structures.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Chemistry and Pharmacy > Department of Chemistry
• Subjects: 500 Science > 540 Chemistry
• ISSN: 1359-7345
• Language: English