Materials Data on CrO2 by Materials Project

Abstract

CrO2 crystallizes in the orthorhombic Imma space group. The structure is three-dimensional. there are two inequivalent Cr4+ sites. In the first Cr4+ site, Cr4+ is bonded to four O2- atoms to form corner-sharing CrO4 tetrahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 50–56°. There is two shorter (1.70 Å) and two longer (1.80 Å) Cr–O bond length. In the second Cr4+ site, Cr4+ is bonded to six O2- atoms to form CrO6 octahedra that share corners with six equivalent CrO4 tetrahedra and edges with two equivalent CrO6 octahedra. There are two shorter (2.00 Å) and four longer (2.04 Å) Cr–O bond lengths. There are two inequivalent O2- sites. In the first O2- site, O2- is bonded in a distorted bent 120 degrees geometry to two Cr4+ atoms. In the second O2- site, O2- is bonded in a distorted trigonal planar geometry to three Cr4+ atoms.