Ambient-Pressure Polymerization Of Carbon Anions In The High-Pressure Phase Mg2c
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY(2015)
Abstract
Experimental and theoretical methods were employed to investigate the ambient-pressure, metastable phase transition pathways for Mg2C, which was recovered after high-pressure synthesis. We demonstrate that at temperatures above 600 K isolated C4- anions within the Mg2C structure polymerize into longer-chain carbon polyanions, resulting in the formation of the alpha-Mg2C3 (Pnnm) structure, which is another local energy minimum for the carbon-magnesium system. Access to the thermodynamic ground state (decomposition into graphite) was achieved at temperatures above similar to 1000 K. These results indicate that recoverable high-pressure materials can serve as useful high-energy precursors for ambient-pressure materials synthesis, and they show a novel mechanism for the formation of carbon chains from methanide structures.
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carbon anions,polymerization,high-pressure ambient-pressure
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