I. Krabbes et H. Langbein, PREPARATION OF CUTA2O6 FROM THE TRIRUTILE TO THE PEROVSKITE STRUCTURE, Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung. B, A journal of chemical sciences, 51(11), 1996, pp. 1605-1610
A new trirutile MTa(2)O(6) was synthesized by thermal decomposition of
a freeze dried Cu-Ta-oxalate precursor. Its formation takes place pre
ferentially starting from Cu-rich precursor compositions. Above 1000 d
egrees C decomposition leads to the already known perovskite like stru
cture with a composition Cu1.05Ta1.98O6. The degree of the orthorhombi
c distortion of the perovskite unit cell depends on the conditions dur
ing the cooling process after perovskite formation.