Chemistry:Osmium diphosphide
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| OsP2 | |
| Molar mass | 252.18 g·mol−1 |
| Appearance | black crystals |
| Density | 9.33 g/cm3 |
| insoluble | |
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Platinum diphosphide |
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Osmium diphosphide is a binary inorganic compound of osmium metal and phosphorus with the chemical formula OsP
2.
Synthesis
Osmium diphosphide can be obtained by fusion of stoichiometric amounts of osmium and red phosphorus at 500-1000 °C:
- 2 Os + P
4 → 2 OsP
2
Properties
Osmium diphosphide forms black crystals of orthorhombic crystal system with space group Pnnm.[1]
Uses
Osmium diphosphide can be used as a semiconductor.[2]
References
- ↑ "mp-2319: P2Os (orthorhombic, Pnnm, 58)". Materials Project. https://legacy.materialsproject.org/materials/mp-2319/.
- ↑ Bugaris, Daniel E.; Malliakas, Christos D.; Shoemaker, Daniel P.; Do, Dat T.; Chung, Duck Young; Mahanti, Subhendra D.; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G. (15 September 2014). "Crystal Growth and Characterization of the Narrow-Band-Gap Semiconductors OsPn 2 (Pn = P, As, Sb)" (in en). Inorganic Chemistry 53 (18): 9959–9968. doi:10.1021/ic501733z. ISSN 0020-1669. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ic501733z. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
