ISSN:
0947-6539
Keywords:
conductivity
;
europium
;
gold
;
magnetic properties
;
superstructures
;
tin
;
Chemistry
;
General Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The title compound was prepared from the elements by reaction in a sealed tantalum tube at 1320 K followed by slow cooling to 970 K. EuAuSn crystallizes with a pronounced subcell of space group Imma (KHg2 type). Additional very weak reflections required a quintupled b axis. The superstructure was refined from single-crystal four-circle diffractometer data (Imm 2, a = 479.1(1) pm, b = 3833.6(5) pm, c = 820.1(1) pm, Z = 20, wR2 = 0.0834, 3675 F2 values and 94 variables). Six crystallographically different europium sites occur in the superstructure. Each europium site has an ordered near-neighbour environment of six gold and six tin atoms in the form of two tilted hexagons. Magnetic susceptibility measurements show Curie-Weiss behaviour above 50 K with an experimental magnetic moment of 7.6(1) μB/Eu, indicating divalent europium. EuAuSn orders antiferromagnetically at about 12 K and undergoes a metamagnetic transition at a critical field of 2.0(2) T. Electrical conductivity measurements show metallic behaviour with a room temperature value of 260 μΩcm. 151Eu and 119Sn Mössbauer spectroscopic experiments are compatible with divalent europium and show complex magnetic hyperfine field splitting at low temperature.
Additional Material:
8 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.19970031118
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