Mt. Weller et Sj. Skinner, Neutron and X-ray powder diffraction studies of the oxynitrides SrW(O,N)(3), Ba3W2(O,N)(8) and Ba3Mo2(O,N)(8), INT J INORG, 2(5), 2000, pp. 463-467
Oxynitrides of composition SrW(O,N)(3), Ba3W2(O,N)(8) and Ba3Mo2(O,N)(8) ha
ve been prepared by the ammonolysis of stoichiometric mixtures of oxides an
d carbonates. Combined Rietveld refinements of powder neutron and powder X-
ray diffraction data have allowed the structure of each to be determined. S
rW(O,N)(3) was found to have a cubic Perovskite structure whereas Ba3W2(O,N
)(8) and Ba3Mo2(O,N)(8) have a layered hexagonal structure. In the hexagona
l structures the oxygen and nitrogen atoms are distributed almost randomly
over two sites in the unit cell producing 4-fold co-ordination to tungsten
and molybdenum, a distorted octahedral co-ordination to one barium site and
a 10-fold co-ordination to the other. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All r
ights reserved.