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Phosphorus Nitrides—the Cinderella of Phosphorus Chemistry?
Author(s) -
Scherer Otto J.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.199201701
Subject(s) - phosphorus , nitride , chemistry , sodalite , lithium (medication) , inorganic chemistry , salt (chemistry) , crystallography , organic chemistry , catalysis , medicine , zeolite , layer (electronics) , endocrinology
Stamped as long since discovered and therefore completely characterized , simple inorganic molecules like the phosphorus nitrides are often neglected. Yet although P 3 N 5 was synthesized in 1903, its structure is still a mystery. W. Schnick et al. resurrected the chemistry of these compounds in the synthesis of P‐N analogues of known structural types. In this way they succeeded in synthesizing and characterizing the lithium salt of the complex anion P 4 N 10 10 −( Angew. Chem. 1991 , 103 , 857; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1991 , 30 , 830) and Zn 7 [P 12 N 24 ]Cl 2 , whose [P 12 N 24 ] framework is analogous to that of the [Al 6 Si 6 O 24 ]Cl 2 unit of sodalite (communication on p. 213).