The Nitrogen Bond, or the Nitrogen-Centered Pnictogen Bond: The Covalently Bound Nitrogen Atom in Molecular Entities and Crystals as a Pnictogen Bond Donor

PR Varadwaj, A Varadwaj, HM Marques, K Yamashita - Compounds, 2022 - mdpi.com
The nitrogen bond in chemical systems occurs when there is evidence of a net attractive
interaction between the electrophilic region associated with a covalently or coordinately …

Nitrogen in black phosphorus structure

C Ji, AA Adeleke, L Yang, B Wan, H Gou, Y Yao… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Group V elements in crystal structure isostructural to black phosphorus with unique
puckered two-dimensional layers exhibit exciting physical and chemical phenomena …

Aromatic hexazine [N6]4− anion featured in the complex structure of the high-pressure potassium nitrogen compound K9N56

D Laniel, F Trybel, Y Yin, T Fedotenko… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The recent high-pressure synthesis of pentazolates and the subsequent stabilization of the
aromatic [N5]− anion at atmospheric pressure have had an immense impact on nitrogen …

Remarkable stability of - and its prevalence in the nitrogen phase diagram

J Yan, P Dalladay-Simpson, LJ Conway, F Gorelli… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Solid nitrogen exhibits a panoply of phenomena ranging from complex molecular crystalline
configurations to polymerization and closing band gap at higher densities. Among the …

Prediction of stable iron nitrides at ambient and high pressures with progressive formation of new polynitrogen species

L Wu, R Tian, B Wan, H Liu, N Gong, P Chen… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nitride materials are of considerable interest due to their fundamental importance and
practical applications. However, synthesis of transition metal nitrides often requires extreme …

Structure determination of ζ-N2 from single-crystal X-ray diffraction and theoretical suggestion for the formation of amorphous nitrogen

D Laniel, F Trybel, A Aslandukov, J Spender… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The allotropy of solid molecular nitrogen is the consequence of a complex interplay between
fundamental intermolecular as well as intramolecular interactions. Understanding the …

Materials under high pressure: a chemical perspective

KP Hilleke, T Bi, E Zurek - Applied Physics A, 2022 - Springer
At high pressure, the typical behavior of elements dictated by the periodic table—including
oxidation numbers, stoichiometries in compounds, and reactivity, to name but a few—is …

Revealing Phosphorus Nitrides up to the Megabar Regime: Synthesis of α′‐P3N5, δ‐P3N5 and PN2

D Laniel, F Trybel, A Néri, Y Yin… - … A European Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐metal nitrides are an exciting field of chemistry, featuring a significant number of
compounds that can possess outstanding material properties. These properties mainly rely …

Creating Cyclo-N5+ Cations and Assembling N5+N5 Salts via Electronegativity Comatching in Tailored Ionic Compounds

B Zhang, Y Xin, M Xu, Y Zhang, Y Li… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The recent discovery of crystalline pentazolates marks a major advance in polynitrogen
chemistry and raises prospects of making the long-touted potent propellant N5+ N5–salt …

High-Pressure Synthesis of the β-Zn3N2 Nitride and the α-ZnN4 and β-ZnN4 Polynitrogen Compounds

D Laniel, AA Aslandukova, AN Aslandukov… - Inorganic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
High-pressure nitrogen chemistry has expanded at a formidable rate over the past decade,
unveiling the chemical richness of nitrogen. Here, the Zn-N system is investigated in laser …