High-Pressure Synthesis of Metal-Inorganic Frameworks Hf4N20 center dot N-2, WN8 center dot N-2, and Os5N28 center dot 3 N-2 with Polymeric Nitrogen Linkers

Polynitrides are intrinsically thermodynamically unstable at ambient conditions and require peculiar synthetic approaches. Now, a one-step synthesis of metal-inorganic frameworks Hf4N20 center dot N2, WN 8 center dot N2, and Os5N28 center dot 3N2 via direct reactions between elements in a diamond anvil cell at pressures exceeding 100 GPa is reported. The porous frameworks (Hf4N20, WN 8, and Os5N28) are built from transition-metal atoms linked either by polymeric polydiazenediyl (polyacetylene-like) nitrogen chains or through dinitrogen units. Triply bound dinitrogen molecules occupy channels of these frameworks. Owing to conjugated polydiazenediyl chains, these compounds exhibit metallic properties. The high-pressure reaction between Hf and N2 also leads to a non-centrosymmetric polynitride Hf2N11 that features double-helix catenapoly[tetraz-1-ene-1,4-diyl] nitrogen chains [-N-N-N=N-](infinity.)
Funding Agencies|National Science Foundation-Earth SciencesNational Science Foundation (NSF) [EAR-1634415]; Department of Energy-GeoSciencesUnited States Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-94ER14466]; Army Research Office; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)German Research Foundation (DFG) [DU 95411/1, DU 393-9/2, DU 393-13/1]; Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF)Federal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF) [05K19WC1]; Russian Science FoundationRussian Science Foundation (RSF) [18-12-00492]; Swedish Government Strategic Research Area in Materials Science on Functional Materials at Linkcping University (Faculty Grant SFO-Mat-LiU) [2009 00971]; Knut and AliceWallenberg FoundationKnut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation [KAW-2018.0194]; Swedish Research Council (VR)Swedish Research Council [2019-05600]; VINN Excellence Center Functional Nanoscale Materials (FunMat-2) [2016-05156]; [W911NF-19-2-0172]