Formation and thermal decomposition of oxynitride germanium compounds

Abstract

The formation of a previously unknown salt with the stoichiometry Li5GeNO3 was found during studies on the reactivity of lithium metagermanate with lithium nitride, germanium oxynitride, and LiGeNO and Li3GeNO2 with lithium oxide. The possibility of existence of anion GeNO35− with mixed oxygen‐nitrogen coordination shell of germanium had been predicted on the basis of analogies occurring among known silicon and germanium compounds. The course of thermal decomposition of the new salt was determined.