Materials Data on Ba2Pd by Materials Project
Ba2Pd 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 Pd atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing BaPd4 tetrahedra. There are a spread of Ba–Pd bond distances ranging from 3.36–3.53 Å. In the second Ba site, Ba is bonded in a distorted trigonal non-coplanar geometry to three equivalent Pd atoms. There are one shorter (3.25 Å) and two longer (3.43 Å) Ba–Pd bond lengths. Pd is bonded in a 7-coordinate geometry to seven Ba atoms.