High pressure synthesis of a quasi-one-dimensional GdFeO3-type perovskite PrCuO3 with nearly divalent Cu ions

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Aug 7;55(61):8931-8934. doi: 10.1039/c9cc04656a. Epub 2019 Jul 10.

Abstract

A new perovskite-type cuprate PrCuO3 has been synthesized by high-pressure oxygen annealing. Synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction and absorption spectroscopy revealed that PrCuO3 crystallizes in the GdFeO3-type structure with cooperative Jahn-Teller distortion, forming one-dimensional chains of corner-shared CuO4 plaquettes with nearly divalent Cu ions.