Reversible lithium insertion and copper extrusion in layered oxysulfides

Oliver J Rutt; Gareth R Williams; Simon J Clarke

doi:10.1039/b605105g

Reversible lithium insertion and copper extrusion in layered oxysulfides

Chem Commun (Camb). 2006 Jul 21:(27):2869-71. doi: 10.1039/b605105g.

Authors

Oliver J Rutt¹, Gareth R Williams, Simon J Clarke

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK OX1 3QR.

PMID: 17007400
DOI: 10.1039/b605105g

Abstract

All of the copper in the layered oxysulfides Sr2MnO2Cu1.5S2 and Sr2MnO2CU3.5S3 may be extruded as the element and the copper ions replaced quasi-reversibly by lithium ions in reductive topotactic ion exchange reactions; dramatic changes in magnetic properties result.