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  • Title: Syntheses, crystal and electronic structures, and characterizations of quaternary antiferromagnetic sulfides: Ba2MFeS5 (M = Sb, Bi).
    Author: Geng L, Cheng WD, Zhang H, Lin CS, Zhang WL, Li YY, He ZZ.
    Journal: Inorg Chem; 2011 Mar 21; 50(6):2378-84. PubMed ID: 21332210.
    Abstract:
    Two new quaternary sulfides, Ba(2)SbFeS(5) and Ba(2)BiFeS(5), were synthesized by using a conventional high-temperature solid-state reaction method in closed silica tubes at 1123 K. The two compounds both crystallize in the orthorhombic space group Pnma with a = 12.128(6) Å, b = 8.852(4) Å, c = 8.917(4) Å, and Z = 4 for Ba(2)SbFeS(5) and a = 12.121(5) Å, b = 8.913(4) Å, c = 8.837(4) Å, and Z = 4 for Ba(2)BiFeS(5). The crystal structure unit can be viewed as an infinite one-dimensional edge-shared MS(5) (M = Sb, Bi) tetragonal-pyramid chain with FeS(4) tetrahedra alternately arranged on two sides of the MS(5) polyhedral chain via edge-sharing (so the chain can also be written as (1)(∞)[MFeS(5)](4-)). Interestingly, the compounds have the structural type of a Ba(3)FeS(5) high-pressure phase considering one Ba(2+) is replaced by one Sb(3+)/Bi(3+), with Fe(4+) reduced to Fe(3+) for in order to maintain the electroneutrality of the system. As a result, the isolated iron ions in Ba(3)FeS(5) are bridged by intermediate MS polyhedra in Ba(2)MFeS(5) (M = Sb, Bi) compounds and form the (1)(∞)[MFeS(5)](4-) chain structure. This atom substitution of Ba(2+) by one Sb(3+)/Bi(3+) leads to a magnetic transition from paramagnetic Ba(3)FeS(5) to antiferromagnetic Ba(2)MFeS(5), resulting from an electron-exchange interaction of the iron ions between inter- or intrachains. Magnetic property measurements indicate that the two compounds are both antiferromagnetic materials with Néel temperatures of 13 and 35 K for Ba(2)SbFeS(5) and Ba(2)BiFeS(5), respectively. First-principles electronic structure calculations based on density functional theory show that the two compounds are both indirect-band semiconductors with band gaps of 0.93 and 1.22 eV for Ba(2)SbFeS(5) and Ba(2)BiFeS(5), respectively.
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