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Molecular Level Synthesis of InFeO3 and InFeO3/Fe2O3 Nanocomposites
- Source :
- Inorganic chemistry 60(6), 3719-3728 (2021). doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03425
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- American Chemical Society (ACS), 2021.
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Abstract
- New heterometallic In–Fe alkoxides [InFe(OtBu)4(PyTFP)2] (1), [InFe2(OneoPen)9(Py)] (2), and [InFe3(OneoPen)12] (3) were synthesized and structurally characterized. The arrangement of metal centers in mixed-metal framework was governed by the In:Fe ratio and the coordination preferences of Fe(III) and In(III) centers to be in tetrahedral and octahedral environments, respectively. 3 displayed a star-shaped so-called “Mitsubishi” motif with the central In atom coordinated with three tetrahedral {Fe(OneoPen)4}− anionic units. The deterministic structural influence of the larger In atom was evident in 1 and 2 which displayed the coordination of neutral coligands to achieve the desired coordination number. Thermal decomposition studies of compounds 1–3 under inert conditions with subsequent powder diffraction studies revealed the formation of Fe2O3 and In2O3 in the case of 3 and 2, whereas 1 intriguingly produced elemental In and Fe. In contrary, the thermal decomposition of 1–3 under ambient conditions produced a ternary oxide, InFeO3, with additional Fe2O3 present as a secondary phase in a different stoichiometric ratio predetermined through the In:Fe ratio in 2 and 3. The intimate mixing of different phases in InFeO3/Fe2O3 nanocomposites was confirmed by transmission electron microscopy of solid residues obtained after the decomposition of 1 and 2. The pure InFeO3 particles demonstrated ferromagnetic anomalies around 170 K as determined by temperature-dependent field-cooled and zero-field-cooled magnetization experiments. A first-order magnetic transition with an increase in the ZFC measurements was explained by temperature-induced reduction of the Fe–Fe distance and the corresponding increase in superexchange.
- Subjects :
- 010405 organic chemistry
Chemistry
Coordination number
Thermal decomposition
Oxide
010402 general chemistry
01 natural sciences
0104 chemical sciences
Inorganic Chemistry
Crystallography
chemistry.chemical_compound
Magnetization
Octahedron
Superexchange
ddc:540
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Ternary operation
Powder diffraction
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1520510X and 00201669
- Volume :
- 60
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6d4ce383144811753e947110d7f3f9be