• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Neue Arsenide mit ThCr2Si2- oder einer damit verwandten Struktur: Die Verbindungen ARh2As2 (A: Eu, Sr, Ba) und BaZn2As2 / New Arsenides with ThCr2Si2-type or Related Structures: The Compounds ARh2As2 (A: Eu, Sr, Ba) and BaZn2As2
  • Contributor: Hellmann, Andrea; Löhken, Anke; Wurth, Andreas; Mewis, Albrecht
  • imprint: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2007
  • Published in: Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/znb-2007-0203
  • ISSN: 1865-7117; 0932-0776
  • Keywords: General Chemistry
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  • Description: <jats:p>Four new arsenides of rhodium and zinc were prepared by heating mixtures of the elements at high temperatures (1000 - 1200 °C) and investigated by single crystal X-ray methods. EuRh<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>As<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> (a = 4.067(1), c = 11.319(2) Å ) and BaRh<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>As<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> (a = 4.053(1), c = 12.770(3) Å ) crystallize with the well-known ThCr<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>Si<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>-type (I4/mmm; Z = 2). Due to the rigid layers of RhAs<jats:sub>4</jats:sub> tetrahedra, and to the atomic size of europium and barium, the As-As distances between the layers with values of 2.97 and 3.66 Å, respectively, are very long. SrRh<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>As<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> is polymorphic and undergoes two phase transitions at about 190 and 282 °C. Main features of the three crystal structures are also layers of RhAs<jats:sub>4</jats:sub> tetrahedra. At room temperature α-SrRh<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>As<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> (a = 5.676(1), b = 6.178(2), c = 11.052(2) Å ) probably crystallizes with the BaNi<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>Si<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>-type (Cmcm; Z = 4), whereas β -SrRh2As2 (a = 5.760(3), b = 6.067(4), c = 11.264(5) A° , Fmmm, Z = 4) forms a new orthorhombically distorted variant of the ThCr<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>Si<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>-type. Single crystals grown in a flux of lead and quenched at high temperature show that the γ -phase (a = 4.112(1), c = 11.431(6) Å ) crystallizes with the ThCr<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>Si<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>-type. The same is true for the high temperature modification of BaZn<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>As<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> (β -phase; a = 4.120(1), c = 13.578(1) Å ), whereas the already known α-BaZn<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>As<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> forms the α-BaCu<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>S<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>-type (Pnma; Z = 4) consisting of a 3D-network of edge- and vertex-sharing ZnAs<jats:sub>4</jats:sub> tetrahedra with Ba atoms in the voids of this network.</jats:p>
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