Hole and Electron Doping of the 4d Transition‐Metal Oxyhydride LaSr3NiRuO4H4.

Hole or electron doping of phases prepared by topochemical reactions (e.g. anion deintercalation or anion‐exchange) is extremely challenging as these low‐temperature conversion reactions are typically very sensitive to the electron counts of precursor phases. Herein we report the successful hole and electron doping of the transition‐metal oxyhydride LaSr3NiRuO4H4 by first preparing precursors in the range LaxSr4−xNiRuO8 0.5<x<1.4 and then converting into the corresponding LaxSr4−xNiRuO4H4 phases. This is particularly noteworthy as the (Ni/Ru)H2 sheets in the LaxSr4−xNiRuO4H4 phases are structurally analogous to the CuO2 sheets in cuprate superconductors and hole doping (Ni1+/2+, Ru2+) or electron doping (Ni2+, Ru1+/2+) yields materials with partial occupancy in Ni/Ru 3d/4dx2-y2 –H 1s bands which are analogous to the partially occupied Cu 3dx2-y2 –O 2p bands present in the CuO2 sheets of doped superconducting cuprates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]