P – Sn (Phosphorus – Tin)

Andy Watson, Sigrid Wagner, Evgenia Lysova, Lazar Rokhlin

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[1990Gul] synthesized the compound SnP by heating a mixture of tin and phosphorus in an evacuated and sealed silica tube at 610°C, followed by slow cooling down to room temperature. The crystal structure of the compound was determined by X-ray single crystal diffraction. The results of the experiments [1990Gul] suggested existence of a compound with formula SnP, unlike [Mas2] who assumed it to be metastable, with formation at high pressure. The existence of the stable SnP discovered by [1990Gul] remains, however, doubtful because in their experiments this compound was not always formed. [1993Oka] corrected the P-Sn phase diagram presented in [Mas2] adding the results of the investigation by [1985Ari] and thermodynamic estimation of the location of the miscibility gap on the Sn side of the diagram. [1999Kuz] prepared cry...