Dynamic Bismuth Clusters in an Ionic Conducting Copper Iodide Matrix

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Abstract

Black, apparently air-stable crystals of (Bi9)[Cu8I13], is grown by reacting Bi, Cu, and BiI3 in an evacuated, sealed silica ampoule. At room temperature, the structure exhibits eight formula units of largely disordered (Bi9)5+ polycations, which appear as hollow spheres of inhomogeneously distributed electron density on a temporal and spatial average. The clusters are embedded in a disordered 3D framework of iodidocuprate(I) tetrahedra. The structure adopts the centrosymmetric space group Fm (Formula presented.) c and can be described as a filling variant of the NaZn13 structure type with Cu+ cations distributed across the numerous tetrahedral voids. At 100 K, the crystal structure is fully ordered and adopts the noncentrosymmetric, monoclinic space group Cc with pseudocubic metrics. The (Bi9)5+ cluster has the rarely observed shape of a capped square antiprism. The disorder in the [Cu8I13]5− part indicates mobility of the copper(I) cations. Impedance measurements reveal poor electronic conductivity and a weak ionic conductivity of 5 × 10−5 S cm−1 at room temperature. The electronic band structure shows a wide gap between the bonding and antibonding states of the [Cu8I13]5− framework, in which molecular states of the bismuth polycations are located, reducing the bandgap to about 0.80 eV.

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummere2500027
Seitenumfang6
FachzeitschriftZeitschrift fur Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie
Jahrgang651 (2025)
Ausgabenummer8
PublikationsstatusElektronische Veröffentlichung vor Drucklegung - 1 März 2025
Peer-Review-StatusJa

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ORCID /0000-0002-2391-6025/work/181860000

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Schlagwörter

  • bismuth, NaZn structure types, order–disorder transitions, polycations, structure dynamics