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A new route to metal azides.

Thomas G Müller1, Friedrich Karau, Wolfgang Schnick

  • 1AG Fluorchemie, Department Chemie, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, 85747 Garching (Germany) http://www.fluor.ch.tum.de.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|June 14, 2014
PubMed
Summary

This study introduces a new method for synthesizing various metal azides using silver azide in liquid ammonia. This novel route provides access to new metal azides and potentially new nitrides.

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Area of Science:

  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Synthetic Chemistry

Background:

  • Metal azides are versatile precursors for synthesizing nitridophosphates and binary nitrides.
  • Existing synthetic routes for metal azides can be limited.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel synthetic method for producing a range of metal azides.
  • To synthesize new metal azides and explore their potential as precursors for nitrides.

Main Methods:

  • Reaction of various metals (main-group, transition, rare-earth) with silver azide in liquid ammonia at low temperatures.
  • Crystallization of dinuclear holmium azide under specific temperature and ammonia vapor pressure conditions.

Main Results:

  • Successful synthesis of manganese azide (Mn(N3)2), tin azide (Sn(N3)2), and europium azide (Eu(N3)2) for the first time.
Keywords:
ammoniaazidesrare-earth-metal azideredox reactionstransition-metal azides

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  • Development of a simplified synthesis for zinc azide (Zn(N3)2).
  • Growth of single crystals of dinuclear holmium azide ([Ho2(μ-NH2)3(NH3)10](N3)3⋅1.25NH3).

    • Conclusions:

    • The presented method offers a versatile route to novel metal azides.
    • This new synthetic pathway holds promise for the development of new main-group, transition, and rare-earth metal nitrides through controlled decomposition.