Pnictide-Capped Butterfly Cluster in the Crystal Structure of Nb4PnX11 (Pn = N, P; X = Cl, Br, I)

Markus Ströbele; Oliver Oeckler; Michael Thelen; Reinhold F Fink; Arun Krishnamurthy; Scott Kroeker; Hans-Jürgen Meyer

doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02646

Pnictide-Capped Butterfly Cluster in the Crystal Structure of Nb₄PnX₁₁ (Pn = N, P; X = Cl, Br, I)

Inorg Chem. 2022 Nov 7;61(44):17599-17608. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02646. Epub 2022 Oct 25.

Authors

Markus Ströbele¹, Oliver Oeckler², Michael Thelen³, Reinhold F Fink³, Arun Krishnamurthy⁴, Scott Kroeker⁴, Hans-Jürgen Meyer¹

Affiliations

¹ Section for Solid-State and Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, D-72076Tübingen, Germany.
² Institute for Mineralogy, Crystallography and Materials Science; Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Leipzig University, Scharnhorststraße 20, 04275Leipzig, Germany.
³ Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, D-72076Tübingen, Germany.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, ManitobaR3T 2N2, Canada.

PMID: 36282785
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02646

Abstract

Niobium pnictide halides Nb₄PnX₁₁ (Pn = N, P; X = Cl, Br, I) are reported with their average crystal structures. Individual pnictide-capped butterfly cluster cores [Nb₄P] in the structure are interconnected into two-dimensional layers, with their electronic and magnetic properties being analyzed.