Materials Data on Ba2Ge by Materials Project
Ba2Ge is Cotunnite structured and crystallizes in the orthorhombic Pnma space group. The structure is three-dimensional. there are two inequivalent Ba sites. In the first Ba site, Ba is bonded to four equivalent Ge atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing BaGe4 tetrahedra. There are a spread of Ba–Ge bond distances ranging from 3.36–3.44 Å. In the second Ba site, Ba is bonded in a distorted trigonal non-coplanar geometry to three equivalent Ge atoms. There are one shorter (3.40 Å) and two longer (3.64 Å) Ba–Ge bond lengths. Ge is bonded in a 7-coordinate geometry to seven Ba atoms.