Materials Data on MgCd5 by Materials Project

Abstract

MgCd5 crystallizes in the hexagonal P-62m space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Mg is bonded to twelve Cd atoms to form MgCd12 cuboctahedra that share corners with eighteen equivalent CdMg3Cd9 cuboctahedra, edges with six equivalent MgCd12 cuboctahedra, edges with twelve CdMg2Cd10 cuboctahedra, faces with two equivalent MgCd12 cuboctahedra, and faces with eighteen CdMg2Cd10 cuboctahedra. There are six shorter (3.09 Å) and six longer (3.24 Å) Mg–Cd bond lengths. There are three inequivalent Cd sites. In the first Cd site, Cd is bonded to two equivalent Mg and ten Cd atoms to form CdMg2Cd10 cuboctahedra that share corners with eighteen equivalent CdMg2Cd10 cuboctahedra, edges with four equivalent MgCd12 cuboctahedra, edges with fourteen CdMg2Cd10 cuboctahedra, faces with four equivalent MgCd12 cuboctahedra, and faces with sixteen CdMg2Cd10 cuboctahedra. There are six shorter (3.09 Å) and four longer (3.23 Å) Cd–Cd bond lengths. In the second Cd site, Cd is bonded to two equivalent Mg and ten Cd atoms to form CdMg2Cd10 cuboctahedra that share corners with eighteen CdMg2Cd10 cuboctahedra, edges with four equivalent MgCd12 cuboctahedra, edges with fourteen CdMg2Cd10 cuboctahedra, faces with four equivalent MgCd12 cuboctahedra, and faces with sixteen CdMg2Cd10 cuboctahedra. There are three shorter (3.09 Å) and four longer (3.23 Å) Cd–Cd bond lengths. In the third Cd site, Cd is bonded to three equivalent Mg and nine Cd atoms to form distorted CdMg3Cd9 cuboctahedra that share corners with nine equivalent MgCd12 cuboctahedra, corners with nine equivalent CdMg3Cd9 cuboctahedra, edges with eighteen CdMg2Cd10 cuboctahedra, faces with three equivalent MgCd12 cuboctahedra, and faces with seventeen CdMg2Cd10 cuboctahedra. All Cd–Cd bond lengths are 3.09 Å.