Ternary and quaternary layered nitride halides, Ca2N(X,X′) (X,X′=Cl, Br, I): Evolution of structure with composition

✍ Scribed by Amy Bowman; Ronald I. Smith; Duncan H. Gregory

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 625 KB
• Volume: 178
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-4596
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2005.03.021

✦ Synopsis

The quaternary systems Ca-N-Cl-Br and Ca-N-Br-I have been investigated resulting in the synthesis of a number of new layered nitride mixed halides. The evolution of structure with composition has been investigated by powder X-ray and powder neutron diffraction techniques. A continuous solid solution exists between Ca 2 NCl and Ca 2 NBr with intermediate compounds adopting the same anti-a-NaFeO 2 structure (rhombohedral space group R3m) as the ternary end members. A phase transition occurs in the Ca 2 NBr 1Ày I y system between y ¼ 0:7 and y ¼ 0:8 corresponding to a switch from cubic close packing to hexagonal close packing of metal-nitrogen layers and corresponding adoption of the anti-b-RbScO 2 (filled anti-CdI 2 ) structure (hexagonal space group P6 3 =mmc). While nitride and halide anions occupy distinct crystallographic sites, there is no ordering of halides in quaternary materials irrespective of stoichiometry or structure type. All the nitride halides show temperature independent paramagnetic behaviour between 2 and 300 K.