Valence-ordering structures and magnetic behavior of metallic MMX chain compounds
Valence-ordering structures and magnetic behavior of metallic MMX chain compounds
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DOI:
10.1002/1521-3773(20020802)41:15
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发表时间:
2002-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Mitani, T
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作者:
Mitsumi, M;Kitamura, K;Mitani, T
Figure 1. Schematic representation of electronic and lattice structures of the MMX chain compound, where the electrons occupy the Mdz2 orbitals. below 80 K was concluded to be an ACP state. However, no loss in the spin degree of freedom for this system has yet been observed. Recently, we studied the crystal structure and solidstate properties of [{Pt2 (EtCS2) 4I} I], and revealed a metal±semiconductor (M±S) transition at TM±S à 205 K, above which the remarkable thermal vibration of a bridging iodine atom in the AV state was observed.[4] This compound shows diffuse scattering corresponding to a twofold repetition length of the Pt-Pt-I-unit above TM±S. Diffuse scattering begins to convert into superlattice reflections below 140K. These superlattice reflections are considered to have originated from a CDW or ACP state. The spin degree of freedom, however, persisted down to 2 K. We report the structural phase-transition, valence-ordering structure and magnetic properties of a new metallic MMX chain compound,[{Pt2 (nBuCS2) 4I} I](1), as well as its transport properties and an efficient chemical synthesis. This compound clearly exhibits an abrupt drop in the magnetic susceptibility, similar to the spin-Peierls transition, accompanying a first-order phase transition at about 210 K. We have also performed a crystal structure analysis of [{Pt2 (EtCS2) 4I} I](2) at 48 K which included superlattice reflections to determine its valence-ordering structure in the low-temperature phase. This work has clarified the correlation between the crystal structures and magnetic properties of 1 and 2. Black needle crystals of 1 were grown by the slow cooling of a toluene±n-hexane solution of equimolar amounts of [Pt2 (nBuCS2) 4] and [Pt2 (nBuCS2) 4I2].[5] Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements of 1 were carried out in the temperature range of 153±443 K. Two peaks of latent heat corresponding to the first-order phase transition were observed in the temperature ranges of 204±212 K and 318±323 K, which revealed the existence of three phases, the low-temperature (LT), room-temperature (RT), and high-temperature (HT) phases. Compound 1 exhibits relatively high electrical conductivity (17±83 S cm¿ 1) at room temperature, comparable to the conductivity of [{Pt2 (dta) 4I} I](ca. 13Scm¿ 1)[2d] and 2 (5±30 Scm¿ 1).[4] The temperature dependence of electrical resistivity 1, indicates metallic conduction in the HT phase above the transition temperature, TM±S à 325K. The LT and RT phases show semiconducting behavior with activation energies of 134 and 255meV, respectively. The thermoelectric power S, was also measured in the temperature range of 200±400 K. The HT phase shows almost temperature-independent behavior of S (¿ 10 mVK¿ 1), which indicates the existence of a half-filled metallic band.[6] Below TM±S à 325 K, S slightly decreases with decreasing temperature, and reaches a minimum value of¿ 16 mVK¿ 1 near 270K and then, as is characteristic of semiconductors, increases. Furthermore, 1 and S exhibit sharp increases at around 210 K. ORTEP diagrams of 1 in the RT and LT phases are shown in Figure 2. Compound 1 undergoes a first-order phase-transi-