We present the first copper iridium binary metal oxide with the chemical formula CuIrO. The material is synthesized from the parent compound NaIrO by a topotactic reaction where sodium is exchanged with copper under mild conditions. CuIrO has the same monoclinic space group (C2/c) as NaIrO with a layered honeycomb structure. The parent compound NaIrO is proposed to be relevant to the Kitaev spin liquid on the basis of having Ir with an effective spin of 1/2 on a honeycomb lattice. Remarkably, whereas NaIrO shows a long-range magnetic order at 15 K and fails to become a true spin liquid, CuIrO remains disordered until 2.7 K, at which point a short-range order develops. Rietveld analysis shows less distortions in the honeycomb structure of CuIrO with bond angles closer to 120° compared to NaIrO. Thus, the weak short-range magnetism combined with the nearly ideal honeycomb structure places CuIrO closer to a Kitaev spin liquid than its predecessors.
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