Cornucopia of Structures in the Pseudobinary System (SnSe) BiSe: A Crystal-Chemical Copycat.

Pseudobinary phases (SnSe) BiSe exhibit a very diverse structural chemistry characterized by different building blocks, all of which are cutouts of the NaCl type. For SnSe contents between x = 5 and x = 0.5, several new phases were discovered.

Correlation of High Magnetoelectric Coupling with Oxygen Vacancy Superstructure in Epitaxial Multiferroic BaTiO₃-BiFeO₃ Composite Thin Films.

Epitaxial multiferroic BaTiO₃-BiFeO₃ composite thin films exhibit a correlation between the magnetoelectric (ME) voltage coefficient α and the oxygen partial pressure during growth. The ME coefficient α reaches high values up to 43 V/(cm·Oe) at 300 K and at 0.25 mbar oxygen growth pressure.

High Thermoelectric Figure of Merit Values of Germanium Antimony Tellurides with Kinetically Stable Cobalt Germanide Precipitates.

Heterostructures that consist of a germanium antimony telluride matrix and cobalt germanide precipitates can be obtained by straightforward solid-state synthesis including simple annealing and quenching procedures. The microscale precipitates are homogeneously distributed in a matrix with pronounced "herringbone-like" nanostructure associated with very low thermal conductivities. In comparison to the corresponding pure tellurides, the figure of merit (ZT) values of heterostructured materials are remarkably higher.

Discovery and Structure Determination of an Unusual Sulfide Telluride through an Effective Combination of TEM and Synchrotron Microdiffraction.

The structure elucidation of the novel sulfide telluride Pb8Sb8S15Te5 demonstrates a new versatile procedure that exploits the synergism of electron microscopy and synchrotron diffraction methods for accurate structure analyses of side-phases in heterogeneous microcrystalline samples. Suitable crystallites of unknown compounds can be identified by transmission electron microscopy and relocated and centered in a microfocused synchrotron beam by means of X-ray fluorescence scans. The refined structure model is then confirmed by simulating HRTEM images of the same crystallite.

Silver Indium Telluride Semiconductors and Their Solid Solutions with Cadmium Indium Telluride: Structure and Physical Properties.

Ag0.8In2.4Te4 (= AgIn3Te5) and Ag0.

Synthesis of CuInS2 nanocrystals from a molecular complex - characterization of the orthorhombic domain structure.

CuInS2 nanocrystals were synthesized by thermal decomposition of the molecular precursor [(Me3P)3Cu(SC2H4S)In(i)Pr2] in the presence of oleylamine in dioctyl phthalate. According to X-ray diffraction patterns, the as-synthesized CuInS2 nanocrystals crystallize in the wurtzite type structure. High-resolution transmission electron images and selected area electron diffraction patterns reveal a nanodomain structure.

New organometallic single-source precursors for CuGaS(2)-polytypism in gallite nanocrystals obtained by thermolysis.

The complex [((i)Pr(3)PCu)(2)(Me(2)Ga)(2)(SCH(2)CH(2)S)(2)] (4) was synthesized from trimethylgallium, [((i)Pr(3)PCu)(4)(SCH(2)CH(2)S)(2)] (1) and ethanedithiol by elimination of methane. The related monomethyl compound [((i)Pr(3)PCu)(2)(MeGaSPh)(2)(SCH(2)CH(2)S)(2)] (5) has been prepared from [((i)Pr(3)PCuSPh)(3)] (2) and [(MeGaSCH(2)CH(2)S)(2)] (3) by a ligand exchange reaction in tetrahydrofuran solution. The molecular structures of 1 and 3-5 were determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction.

Photochemical generation and reactivity of carbenes within an organic cavitand and capsule: photochemistry of adamantanediazirines.

Chemical behavior of carbenes (adamantylidenes) generated by photolysis of adamantanediazirines has been investigated while they were incarcerated within an organic container in water and on silica surfaces. Confined carbenes behave differently from the free ones, and their behavior is dictated by the nature and the structure of the host-guest complexes. The substituent present on the adamantyl skeleton controls the stoichiometry (1:1 or 2:2) and the orientation of guest molecules within the host.

Structure-reactivity relationships: reactions of a 5-substituted aziadamantane in a resorcin[4]arene-based cavitand.

The complexation properties of two novel C5-substituted adamantanediazirines within the resorcin[4]arene-based cavitand 4 were investigated in DMSO-d(6), revealing that binding is up to 1.4 kcal/mol stronger for halogenated adamantanediazirines when compared with the unsubstituted species. The thermal behavior of 5-bromo-2-aziadamantane (3) was investigated by DSC analysis as the first representative of the adamantanediazirine family in the neat solid state, as well as encapsulated within the aromatic cavity of cavitand 4.

Controllable selective functionalization of a cavitand via solid state photolysis of an encapsulated phenyl azide.

Phenyl azide (1) has been encapsulated within cavitand 2 to form a 1:1 complex of 1@2 in the solid state. Subsequent irradiation affords two diastereomeric nitrene addition products 5 and 7. The ratio of 5 and 7 can be reversed by thermally induced valence isomerization to 1H-azepine 8 followed by photolysis.

1,2,4,5-Tetrakis(diazidomethyl)benzene.

The molecule of the title compound, C(10)H(6)N(24), lies on a crystallographic inversion centre located in the middle of the benzene ring. Steric overcrowding by the bulky N(3) groups is avoided by the tendency of four azide entities to be arranged parallel to the benzene ring and the other four azide groups to be arranged alternately above and below the benzene plane in a skeletal C(i) symmetry. The compound is of interest for high-energy research and as a precursor for the synthesis of carbon nanotubes, nanospheres or high-nitrogen carbon nitrides with great potential for biological and technological applications.

Babesia odocoilei infection in elk.

Two male North American elk from a commercial herd were evaluated because of a sudden onset of lethargy, anorexia, and voiding of red urine. These 2 elk were kept in the same pen as 4 other male elk that had died during the preceding 2 months. Laboratory analyses revealed anemia and intraerythrocytic parasites, later confirmed as Babesia odocoilei (a protozoal hemoparasite of cervids).