Dejan Zagorac, Jelena Zagorac, Tamara Škundrić, Milan Pejić, Dušica Jovanović, J. Christian Schön
{"title":"Structure prediction and mechanical properties of tantalum carbide (TaC) on ab initio level","authors":"Dejan Zagorac, Jelena Zagorac, Tamara Škundrić, Milan Pejić, Dušica Jovanović, J. Christian Schön","doi":"10.1002/zaac.202400088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.202400088","url":null,"abstract":"Tantalum carbide (TaC) is an extremely hard, brittle, refractory ceramic material with excellent physical properties, which makes it a desirable material in e.g. aerospace industries. In order to explore the range of feasible modifications of TaC, we have executed a crystal structure prediction study of the TaC chemical system using a multi‐methodological approach, via enthalpy landscape explorations of pristine TaC at different pressures, supplemented by data mining searches in the ICSD database. Local structure relaxations have been accomplished by using Density Functional Theory (DFT). The global minimum is found to correspond to the equilibrium rock salt (NaCl) type modification. Additionally, eight new phases of tantalum carbide are predicted to be feasible: the WC‐type, the NiAs‐type, the 5‐5‐type, the ZnS‐type, the Ring_TaC‐type, the CsCl‐type, the Ortho_TaC‐type, and the Tetra_TaC‐type. Furthermore, the elastic and mechanical properties of the predicted TaC modifications were explored on the DFT level of computation. The promising values of some of the mechanical properties of the proposed tantalum carbide modifications suggest that various scientific, industrial and technological applications of TaC should be possible.","PeriodicalId":23934,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142190634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dharma Teja Teppala, Jan Bernauer, Esteve Drouillard, Yaswanth Kumar Geddam, Guoxing Chen, Marc Widenmeyer, Maximilian Trapp, Hans-Joachim Kleebe, Ravi Kumar, Sanjay Mathur, Emanuel Ionescu
{"title":"Facile mechanochemical synthesis of compositionally complex spinel‐type oxides, (Co, Fe, Mn)3O4, (Co, Fe, Mn, Ni)3O4, (Co, Cr, Fe, Mn, Ni)3O4","authors":"Dharma Teja Teppala, Jan Bernauer, Esteve Drouillard, Yaswanth Kumar Geddam, Guoxing Chen, Marc Widenmeyer, Maximilian Trapp, Hans-Joachim Kleebe, Ravi Kumar, Sanjay Mathur, Emanuel Ionescu","doi":"10.1002/zaac.202400134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.202400134","url":null,"abstract":"In the current work, a simple mechanochemical route has been employed to preparatively access three spinel‐type compositionally complex ceramics, i.e., (Co, Fe, Mn)3O4, (Co, Fe, Mn, Ni)3O4, and (Co, Cr, Fe, Mn, Ni)3O4. Hydrated nitrate salts of the respective transition metal elements were mechanically ground with ammonium hydrogen carbonate. The resulting paste‐like mixture of metal hydroxides, oxyhydroxides, and carbonates was rinsed with water to remove the byproduct (NH4NO3) and converted into the respective single‐phase spinel‐type oxides via calcination. In situ X‐ray diffraction (XRD) revealed the formation of the spinel‐type structure (Fdm) already at temperatures as low as 150 °C. Typically, the calcination of the precursors at temperatures beyond 500 °C led to the formation of well‐crystallized, single‐phase spinel‐type oxides with nearly equimolar composition and highly homogeneous distribution of the transition metals within the structure. The mechanochemical synthesis route in the present study is considered to be an easy, straightforward, and scalable access to compositionally complex oxides.","PeriodicalId":23934,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142190640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Johannes Beck, Thomas Bredow, Jörg Daniels, Marcus Zink, Doris Ernsthäuser, Dominik Thönnes
{"title":"Coordination Networks from [Te4]2+ Clusters and Polynitriles","authors":"Johannes Beck, Thomas Bredow, Jörg Daniels, Marcus Zink, Doris Ernsthäuser, Dominik Thönnes","doi":"10.1002/zaac.202400112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.202400112","url":null,"abstract":"The reactions of a series of organic polynitriles with [Te4][AsF6]2 in liquid SO2 solution lead either to reduction of [Te4]2+ to elemental tellurium or to the formation of coordination polymers. With 1,3‐dicyanobenzene (1,3‐DCB), 1,4‐dicyanobenzene (1,4‐DCB), 1,2,4,5‐tetracyanobenzene (TCB), tetracyanoethylene (TCNE) and tetracyanochinodimethane (TCNQ) the coordination complexes [Te4][AsF6]2 · 2(1,3‐DCB), [Te4][AsF6]2 · 3(1,4‐DCB) · 2SO2, [Te4][AsF6]2 · TCB, [Te4][AsF6]2 · TCNE and [Te4][AsF6]2 · TCNQ · 8SO2 were isolated and characterized by crystal structure analyses and vibrational Raman spectroscopy. The nitriles are coordinated to the square‐planar clusters forming 1D chains, 2D arrangements and 3D networks. Tetrakis(dicyanomethylene)‐cyclobutendiide [C4(C{CN}2)4]2‒ is oxidized by [Te4]2+ to the neutral cyanocarbon C4(C{CN}2)4 structurally representing a 4[radialene]. The ionization potentials and electron affinities of the cyanamide anion, cyanogen, 1,2‐DCB, 1,3‐DCB, 1,4‐DCB, TCB, C4(C{CN}2)4, TCNE and TCNQ and those polynitriles, which cause reduction of [Te4]2+, were calculated at coupled‐cluster level of theory in order to examine possible reasons for the stability of the coordination polymers based on electronic properties of the nitriles.","PeriodicalId":23934,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142190641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structural Study on Alkali‐Carboxylate Functionalized Late‐Transition Metal Bis(dithiocarbamate) Complexes","authors":"Phil Liebing, Vreni Behling, Juliane Witzorke","doi":"10.1002/zaac.202400064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.202400064","url":null,"abstract":"Lithium, sodium, and potassium derivatives of amino‐acid derived bis(dithiocarbamate) complexes of bivalent nickel, palladium, platinum, and copper are readily available by treatment of the carboxylic‐acid functionalized complexes with the respective alkali metal hydroxide. Representative derivatives of the types A4[M(L1)2], A2[M(HL1)2], A[M(HL1)(H2L1)] (N‐dithioato‐iminodiacetate, L1), and A2[M(L2,3)2] (N‐dithioato‐l‐prolinate, L2, and ‐N‐benzylglycinate, L3; A = Li, Na, K; M = Ni, Pd, Pt, Cu) were isolated and characterized by spectroscopic and thermal methods. Six entries were accessible to single‐crystal X‐ray structure determination, revealing the presence of different coordination‐polymeric structures and hydrogen‐bonded assemblies comprising solvent‐separated cations in the solid state. While the transition metal always retains its all‐sulfur coordination with defined geometry, the alkali metals are structurally more flexible. The latter are usually coordinated by carboxylate and water, but additional interactions with sulfur donors are also relevant in some cases.","PeriodicalId":23934,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie","volume":"40 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141922785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Optical Properties of a New Quaternary Tin Polychalcogenide K2BaSnSe5","authors":"Jinlong shi, mengran sun, Chunxiao Li, Jiyong Yao","doi":"10.1002/zaac.202400050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.202400050","url":null,"abstract":"One new quaternary tin polychalcogenide K2BaSnSe5 has been synthesized by high temperature solid‐state reaction. It crystallizes in the centrosymmetric space group P21/c of the monoclinic system with cell constants a = 11.948(2) Å, b = 10.367(2) Å, c = 9.2902(19) Å, β = 91.33(3)°, and V = 1150.4(4) Å3. The compound features an interesting zero‐dimensional structure consisting of SnSe5 units, made up of SnSe4 tetrahedra and [Se2] unit, with K+, Ba2+ cations locating in the interstitial sites for charge‐balance. Diffuse reflectance spectrum indicates semiconducting property with an optical band gap of 1.45 eV. Theoretical calculations demonstrate that the band gap of the title compound is determined by [SnSe5] units, and the title compound has a large birefringence of 0.28 at wavelength 1.06 . which implies that K2BaSnSe5 may be an intriguing photoelectronic material.","PeriodicalId":23934,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie","volume":"119 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aliovalent doping of niobium and tantalum pentoxide as potential alternative support material for fuel cell catalysts","authors":"Klaus Stöwe, Andreas Giehr","doi":"10.1002/zaac.202400121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.202400121","url":null,"abstract":"As the usually used Carbon Blacks (CB) as support materials in fuel cell catalysts are thermodynamically unstable, alternative supports with high chemical stability and electrical conductivity are to be found. After the investigation of Nb and Ta‐doped SnO2 in an earlier publication, which revealed interesting conductivity properties, we expanded our portfolio of mutual doping of elements of stable oxides into the oxides of the others by reporting here on the Sn, Hf and W‐doping as guests into the base oxides Nb2O5 and Ta2O5. The changes in unit cell parameters as indicators for the doping success were investigated in the doping range of x = 0 – 10 mol% guest fraction. From a complete solubility of the guest ions in case of Hf and W‐doping in the base oxides to a limited solubility in case of Sn‐doping, a whole spectrum of different results was obtained. Additional insight came from UV/vis spectroscopic investigations in diffuse reflectance as well as electrical conductivity measurements.","PeriodicalId":23934,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141968937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daichi Uchida, Mariko Yukimoto, N. Tokitoh, Hiroko Yamada, Y. Mizuhata
{"title":"A Unique Synthetic Route toward a 1,2‐Dihydrodigermene via Formal α‐Elimination of Bromo and Silyl Groups from a Bromo(phenylsilyl)germane","authors":"Daichi Uchida, Mariko Yukimoto, N. Tokitoh, Hiroko Yamada, Y. Mizuhata","doi":"10.1002/zaac.202400131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.202400131","url":null,"abstract":"A 1,2‐dihydrodigermene bearing Tbb {4‐t‐butyl‐1,3‐bis[bis(trimethylsilyl)methyl]phenyl} groups was successfully synthesized and isolated via formal α‐elimination of bromo and silyl groups from the corresponding Tbb‐substituted boromo(phenylsilyl)germane. This novel synthetic method is conducted under mild conditions, representing a significant advantage in the field concerned. The synthesized 1,2‐dihydrodigermene was characterized by NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and single‐crystal X‐ray crystallography. In the 1H NMR spectrum, the Ge–H unit was found to be less electronically affected from the substituents compared to that of the previously reported 1,2‐dihydrodigermene. Moreover, the UV/vis spectra at various temperatures indicated the formation of the isomeric (dihydrogermyl)germylene. In fact, the 1,2‐dihydrodigermene once isolated reacted with DMAP in solution to afford the corresponding complex of the (dihydrogermyl)germylene.","PeriodicalId":23934,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie","volume":"118 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141926228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Front Cover: 15/2024)","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/zaac.202471501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.202471501","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23934,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Functionalization of Si‐ and Al‐based materials with phosphorus dendrimers and their properties","authors":"Anne-Marie Caminade","doi":"10.1002/zaac.202400118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.202400118","url":null,"abstract":"The interactions of dendrimers having a phosphorus atom at each branching point, of type poly(phosphorhydrazone) (PPH), with different types of materials based on silicon and aluminum are reviewed. These dendrimers can be used for the functionalization of solid surfaces at the nanoscale, either by covalent immobilization, or by electrostatic interactions, especially for constructing perfectly controlled multi‐layers by layer‐by‐layer (LbL) deposit. The properties of such hybrid materials as chemical sensors, as very sensitive biological sensors, as well as substrates for the growing of cells are described. The PPH dendrimers can also be embedded inside materials. The resulting hybrid materials have been used for the capture of pollutants, in particular CO2 in air and chromate and methylene blue in waste water.","PeriodicalId":23934,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141885976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ernesto Ballestero-Martínez, Gerardo Antonio Rodríguez Díaz, Roberto Andrés González León, Terrance J. Hadlington, Jürgen H. Antony, Cristopher Camacho
{"title":"A structural, spectroscopic and DFT theoretical comparison of the cis and trans isomers of a cyclohexasilane","authors":"Ernesto Ballestero-Martínez, Gerardo Antonio Rodríguez Díaz, Roberto Andrés González León, Terrance J. Hadlington, Jürgen H. Antony, Cristopher Camacho","doi":"10.1002/zaac.202400093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.202400093","url":null,"abstract":"We report a synthesis of the trans and cis isomers of 1,4‐di‐tert‐butyl‐2,2,3,3,5,5,6,6‐octamethyl‐1,4‐diphenylcyclohexasilane (3), together with the solid‐state structure of cis‐3. Both isomers were characterized using multinuclear NMR and UV spectroscopies and were compared based on these data, together with DFT calculations. Remarkably, we found that both isomers of 3 showcase redshifted UV maxima when compared with other known cyclosilanes. To explain this, the theoretical calculations show that the transitions involved in the excited states of trans‐3 and cis‐3 have, in addition to the expected σ conjugation component of the Si6 ring, significant π contributions of phenyl substituents. The results presented herein show the effect of the substituent’s electronic properties regarding reactivity of intermediates, reaction yield, identity, and electronic properties of novel silicon‐containing molecules.","PeriodicalId":23934,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141885977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}