High-Pressure and High-Temperature Chemistry of Phosphorus and Nitrogen: Synthesis and Characterization of α- and γ-P3N5
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2022

The direct chemical reactivity between phosphorus and nitrogen was induced under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions (9.1 GPa and 2000-2500 K), generated by a laser-heated diamond anvil cell and studied by synchrotron X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and DFT calculations. alpha-P3N5 and gamma-P3N5 were identified as reaction products. The structural parameters and vibrational frequencies of gamma-P3N5 were characterized as a function of pressure during room-temperature compression and decompression to ambient conditions, determining the equation of state of the material up to 32.6 GPa and providing insight about the lattice dynamics of the unit cell during compression, which essentially proceeds through the rotation of the PN5 square pyramids and the distortion of the PN4 tetrahedra. Although the identification of alpha-P3N5 demonstrates for the first time the direct synthesis of this compound from the elements, its detection in the outer regions of the laser-heated area suggests alpha-P3N5 as an intermediate step in the progressive nitridation of phosphorus toward the formation of gamma-P3N5 with increasing coordination number of P by N from 4 to 5. No evidence of a higher-pressure phase transition was observed, excluding the existence of predicted structures containing octahedrally hexacoordinated P atoms in the investigated pressure range.

Författare

Matteo Ceppatelli

LENS - European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)

Demetrio Scelta

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)

LENS - European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy

Manuel Serrano-Ruiz

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)

Kamil Dziubek

LENS - European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy

Fernando Izquierdo Ruiz

Universidad de Oviedo

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Kemi och biokemi

J. Manuel Recio

Universidad de Oviedo

Gaston Garbarino

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)

Volodymyr Svitlyk

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)

Mohamed Mezouar

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)

Maurizio Peruzzini

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)

Roberto Bini

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)

Universita degli Studi di Firenze

LENS - European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy

Inorganic Chemistry

0020-1669 (ISSN) 1520-510X (eISSN)

Vol. 61 31 12165-12180

Ämneskategorier

Oorganisk kemi

Atom- och molekylfysik och optik

Den kondenserade materiens fysik

DOI

10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c01190

PubMed

35881069

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