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Manganese nitride

Several manganese nitrides, salts of manganese and the nitride ion, are stable at atmospheric pressure. The most important is Mn3N2, which catalyzes nitrogen fixation and is a high-temperature antiferromagnet,[1] but other salts are Mn6N5–6, Mn4N,[2][3] and Mn2N.[4][5] Splat quenching may also form a metastable Mn8N that decomposes without diffusion.[2] In general, no binary compounds of manganese and nitrogen are known in which manganese exhibits a formal oxidation state higher than Mn2+, but manganese does form a wide variety of homoleptic nitrido complexes and ternary salts, with oxidation states ranging from Mn+ to Mn+6.5; indeed, the stablest homoleptic complex is Li7MnN4.[6]

The compounds generally form from combustion of the metal in nitrogen or ammonia gas, but as a passivating surface layer; consequently homogenous samples are difficult to obtain. A sufficiently activated manganese sponge results from distillation of manganese amalgam.[7] A sponge is essential to Mn2N synthesis:[8] manganese powder instead absorbs excess nitrogen, although the resulting nitrogen-rich salt anneals with manganese metal to the correct stoichiometry.[4]

Alternatively, manganese(II) chloride undergoes a non–self-propagating solid state metathesis with magnesium nitride at 550 °C to form Mn3N2; higher temperatures or differently-sized cations give Mn2N instead.[1] Excess molten sodamide at 240 °C reduces manganese oxides to nitrides, with the final product dependent on stoichiometry, e.g.:

3 Mn2O3 + 9 NaNH2 → 2 Mn3N2 + 9 NaOH + N2 + 3 NH3

(The waste sodium hydroxide selectively dissolves in an aqueous ethanol wash.)[9] Manganocene ammonolyzes at 700 °C to give Mn3N2.[10] And manganese azides decompose when heated to give Mn3N2 or Mn6N5–6 and nitrogen gas.[3][11]

All except Mn6N5–6[11] are generally stable against hydrolysis, but act as Brønsted bases in concentrated acid.[12]

Nitrogen-doped manganese experiences a slight freezing point depression, with a eutectic point estimated near 1213 °C and 4 at% nitrogen. Further addition of nitrogen increases the melting point to roughly 1270 °C.[2]

Mn4N is an antiperovskite[6] superlattice with Pearson symbol cP5 and space group Fm3m, the same structure as an iron nitride homologue.[2][4] The cell period is 0.3864 nm, and each nitrogen atom is very nearly at the center of the cell.[2] Any defects present are believed to be of Frenkel type.[6] It is the only truly ferromagnetic phase in the manganese-nitride system, with a Curie temperature around 470 °C. However, dissolved hydrogen in the compound is believed to slightly increase the Curie point. The compound metamorphosizes at 890 °C to the hexagonal close-packed Mn2N phase.[2]

Despite the name, Mn2N in fact exhibits substantial variation in its stable composition with temperature, and the formula Mn2N is only accurate near room temperature. It becomes nitrogen-deficient when heated, with composition Mn5–6N above 890 °C. These shifts in composition also correspond to a gradual change in the unit cell, such that the compound has various hexagonal unit cells at high temperatures.[2][6] At its most nitrogen-rich (and coldest), though, the compound has an 0.5668×0.4909×4.537 nm3 orthorhombic unit cell with space group D14
2h. Pbna. It is isostructural with Mo2C.[4][6]

Mn3N2 is face-centered tetragonal, with Pearson symbol tI6 and space group I4/mmm, analogous to thorium hydride.[2] The unit cell has periods a = 0.42046 nm and c = 1.2131 nm, corresponding to three nearly-cubic unit cells stacked atop each other, but with substantial disorder corresponding to nitrogen vacancies.[13] It is a metallic conductor[2] and a Pauli antiferromagnet, with Néel temperature roughly 645 °C.[3] Around 710 °C, it reversibly decomposes to Mn2N, releasing the excess nitrogen as gas[2] and consuming 25 kJ/mol enthalpy.[3] Likewise, it decomposes in a 400 °C hydrogen atmosphere to a body-centered cubic alloy.[14]

Mn6N5–6 resembles CrN.[3] It is face-centered tetragonal like Mn3N2, but lacks the vacancies that cause such a large fineness ratio in the latter. Instead Mn6N5–6 is nearly cubic.[2][3] When nitrogen-poor, it has lattice parameters a = 0.42 nm and c = 0.41 nm,[2] but the unit cell dimensions vary substantially with nitrogen content and temperature, and the material becomes truly cubic at 400 °C. Consequently it exhibits substantial crystal twinning.[3] Around 580 °C, it decomposes to Mn3N2 and nitrogen gas,[2] but requires even at lower temperatures a very high nitrogen vapor pressure to stabilize the phase.[2][3] The decomposition is somewhat reversible, recovering Mn6N5.18 upon cooling. Between 150 °C and 325 °C, it undergoes a magnetic phase transition, aligning moments along one symmetry axis; the Néel temperature is then 387 °C.[3]

In principle, a hexagonal MnN monolayer should exhibit very strong spin polarization, thus behaving as a very strong ferromagnet.[15]

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