Samuel J. Iii Mugavero

Nd2K2IrO7 and Sm2K2IrO7: Iridium(VI) Oxides Prepared under Ambient Pressure

The most-oxidized iridium oxides known to date are prepared in a hydroxide flux under normal pressure. They contain iridium centers exclusively in the +VI oxidation state and are characterized crystallographically. The picture shows the structure of the Ln2K2IrO7 (Ln=Nd, Sm) and its structural components: IrO6 octahedra (black), KO10 polyhedra (beige), LnO10 polyhedra (blue).

Sm 2 NaIrO 6 , a monoclinically distorted double perovskite

Single crystals of the lanthanide-containing iridate, disamarium sodium iridium hexaoxide, Sm2NaIrO6, were prepared via high-temperature flux growth and structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The compound crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P21/n and is a double perovskite, consisting of a 1:1 ordered rock-salt-type lattice of corner-shared NaO6 and IrO6 distorted octahedra. Samarium occupies the eightfold coordination site generated by the connectivity of the octahedra.

Crystal growth of novel lanthanide-containing platinates K4[Ln6Pt2O15] (Ln = La, Pr, Nd, Sm) with a unique framework structure.

Crystals of a new family of lanthanide-containing platinum oxides with a unique framework structure were grown out of molten hydroxide fluxes. The structure consists of a crystallographically well-behaved [Ln(6)Pt(2)O(15)](4-) framework permeated by channels filled with disordered atoms along the [100] and equivalent directions. Open-channel structures are rare in oxides and apparently unknown in platinate chemistry.