In chemistry, mercury nitrides are

chemical compound A chemical compound is a chemical substance composed of many identical molecules (or molecular entities) containing atoms from more than one chemical element held together by chemical bonds. A molecule consisting of atoms of only one element ...

s that contain mercury cations and

nitride In chemistry, a nitride is an inorganic compound of nitrogen. The "nitride" anion, N3- ion, is very elusive but compounds of nitride are numerous, although rarely naturally occuring. Some nitrides have a find applications, such as wear-resistant ...

anions. Binary mercury nitrides, e.g. , are not well characterized and are probably unstable in the condensed phase under ordinary conditions. A nitride of mercury has been reported in the form of . This reddish solid adopts a network structure consisting of tetrahedra linked by nitrate

ligand In coordination chemistry, a ligand is an ion or molecule ( functional group) that binds to a central metal atom to form a coordination complex. The bonding with the metal generally involves formal donation of one or more of the ligand's elec ...

s.Peter Nockemann, Gerd Meyer "Bildung von und Umwandlung in " Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie 2002, Volume 628, pages 2709–2714.

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