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Structure, Insertion Electrochemistry, and Magnetic Properties of a New Type of Substitutional Solid Solutions of Copper, Nickel, and Iron hexacyanoferrates/hexacyanocobaltates

Structure, Insertion Electrochemistry, and Magnetic Properties of a New Type of Substitutional Solid Solutions of Copper, Nickel, and Iron hexacyanoferrates/hexacyanocobaltates

Antje Widmann, Heike Kahlert, Irena Petrovic-Prelevic, Harm Wulff, J V Yakhmi, Nitin Bagkar, Fritz Scholz

Inorg Chem. 2002 Nov 4;41(22):5706-15.

PMID: 12401075

Abstract:

Substitutional solid solutions of metal hexacyanometalates in which low-spin iron(III) and cobalt(III) ions populate the carbon-coordinated sites were synthesized and studied by powder diffraction including Rietveld refinement, cyclic voltammetry of immobilized microparticles, diffuse reflection vis-spectrometry, and magnetization techniques. The continuous solid solution series of potassium copper(II), potassium nickel(II), and iron(III) [(hexacyanoferrate(III))(1-x)(hexacyanocobaltate(III))(x)] show that the substitution of low-spin iron(III) by cobalt(III) in the hexacyanometalate units more strongly affects the formal potentials of the nitrogen-coordinated copper(II) and high-spin iron(III) ions than those of the remaining low-spin iron(III) ions. In the case of copper(II) and iron(III) [(hexacyanoferrate(III))(1-x)(hexacyanocobaltate(III))(x)] the peak currents decrease much more than can be explained by stoichiometry, indicating that the charge propagation is slowed by the substitution of low-spin iron(III) by cobalt(III). The Rietveld refinement of all compounds confirmed the structure initially proposed by Keggin for Prussian blue and contradicts the structure described later by Ludi. The dependencies of lattice parameters on composition exhibit in all series of solid solutions studied similar, although small, deviations from ideality, which correlate with the electrochemical behavior. Finally, a series of solid solutions of the composition KNi(0.5)(II)Cu(0.5)(II)[Fe(III)(CN)(6)](1-x)[Co(III)(CN)(6)](x), where both the nitrogen- and carbon-coordinated metal ions are mixed populated and were synthesized and characterized. These are the first examples of solid solutions of metal hexacyanometalates with four different metal ions, where both the nitrogen- and the carbon-coordinated sites possess a mixed population.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP13963581	Potassium hexacyanocobaltate(III)		13963-58-1	Price

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