Conversion of a Defect Pyrochlore into a Double Perovskite via High-Pressure, High-Temperature Reduction of Te6.

High-pressure, high-temperature reaction conditions can be useful to stabilize metastable polymorphs of complex transition metal oxides. We successfully prepare a new defect pyrochlore Pb2FeTeO6.5 with B-site disordered Fe and Te cations under ambient conditions. Treatment of this material under 8 GPa and 950 °C results in a reductive transformation into the B-site cation-ordered double perovskite Pb2FeTeO6. Mössbauer and EELS spectroscopy confirm the iron cations are in the +3 oxidation state in both phases indicating that this transformation proceeds via reduction of the tellurium cations under apparently oxidizing conditions. This reaction demonstrates that for a suitably chosen system, it is possible to carry out chemical reactions under pressure in unexpected ways.

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