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The electronic structure of oxoniobate Sr4Nb17O26 is studied by the linear muffintin orbital (LMTO) method. It is shown that the highenergy conduction band consists of the Nb4d states and the hybridized valence band is formed by the Nb4d and O2p states. The band structure of this compound is characterized by superposition of the bands of the 2p states of perovskite oxygen atoms and the 4d states of monoxide niobium atoms. The degree of oxidation of the perovskite and monoxide niobium atoms is +5 and +2.56, respectively. Chemical bonding is analyzed using the electron localization function and model Hückel calculations. The niobiumoxygen bond is shown to be the strongest. The Fermi level is localized in the vicinity of the bottom of the niobium antibonding state band, which explains the existence of Sr4−xNb17O26 in the homogeneity region corresponding to 0 < x < 0.3.
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Translated fromZhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 771–780, September–October, 1998.
This work was supported by RFFR grant No. 96-03-32015a.
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Zainullina, V.M., Zhukov, V.P., Zubkov, V.G. et al. Electronic structure and Chemical bonding in Sr4Nb17O26 . J Struct Chem 39, 627–635 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02903535
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