Nitridocompounds of manganese: manganese nitrides and nitridomanganates

Abstract The chemistry of nitrides and nitridometalates is a rapidly growing field in solid state chemistry. This short review is intended to give a brief but comprehensive over-view on the compounds and phases formed with manga-nese, which cover an especially broad range of oxidation states. Furthermore, the present paper tries to put the ob-served structures and properties of the compounds into a broader context.