Synthesis, crystal growth, structural and magnetic characterization of NH4MCl2(HCOO), M=(Fe, Co, Ni)

Joshua T. Greenfield, V. Ovidiu Garlea, Saeed Kamali, Michael Chen, Kirill Kovnir

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Abstract

An ambient-pressure solution route and an improved solvothermal synthetic method have been developed to produce polycrystalline powders and large single crystals of NH4MCl2(HCOO) (M=Fe, Co, Ni). The magnetic structure of the 1D linear chain compound NH4FeCl2(HCOO) has been determined by low-temperature neutron powder diffraction, revealing ferromagnetic intra-chain interactions and antiferromagnetic inter-chain interactions. The newly-reported Co and Ni analogs are isostructural with NH4FeCl2(HCOO), but there are significant differences in the magnetic properties of each compound; the Ni analog behaves similarly to the Fe compound but with stronger magnetic coupling, exhibiting antiferromagnetic ordering (TN=8.5 K) and a broad metamagnetic transition between 2 and 5 T, while the Co analog does not order magnetically above 2 K, despite strong antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbor interactions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)222-229
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Solid State Chemistry
Volume236
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 2016

Funding

The University of California, Davis is gratefully acknowledged for financial support. The work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory was sponsored by the Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

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Office of Basic Energy Sciences
Scientific User Facilities Division
U.S. Department of Energy
University of California, Davis

    Keywords

    • Crystal growth
    • Low-dimensional magnetism
    • Magnetic structure
    • Mössbauer spectroscopy
    • Neutron diffraction
    • Solvothermal synthesis

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