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ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 54, Issue 6, Pages 1954-1959Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201410987
Keywords
azides; density functional calculations; electronic structure; phase transitions; thermochemistry
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- DFG
- high-performance computing cluster at the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University [jara0069]
- Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
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An unexpected polymorph of the highly energetic phase CuN3 has been synthesized and crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group Cmcm with a=3.3635(7), b=10.669(2), c=5.5547(11)angstrom and V=199.34(7)angstrom(3). The layered structure resembles graphite with an interlayer distance of 2.777(1)angstrom (=1/2c). Within a single layer, considering N-3(-) as one structural unit, there are 10-membered almost hexagonal rings with a heterographene-like motif. Copper and nitrogen atoms are covalently bonded with CuN bonds lengths of 1.91 and 2.00 angstrom, and the N-3(-) group is linear but with NN 1.14 and 1.20 angstrom. Electronic-structure calculations and experimental thermochemistry show that the new polymorph termed -CuN3 is more stable than the established -CuN3 phase. Also, -CuN3 is dynamically, and thus thermochemically, metastable according to the calculated phonon density of states. In addition, -CuN3 exhibits negative thermal expansion within the graphene-like layer.
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