Materials Data on BaCd3 by Materials Project
BaCd3 crystallizes in the monoclinic P2_1/m space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Ba is bonded to twelve Cd atoms to form a mixture of distorted corner and face-sharing BaCd12 cuboctahedra. There are a spread of Ba–Cd bond distances ranging from 3.63–3.81 Å. There are three inequivalent Cd sites. In the first Cd site, Cd is bonded in a 10-coordinate geometry to four equivalent Ba and six Cd atoms. There are a spread of Cd–Cd bond distances ranging from 3.14–3.23 Å. In the second Cd site, Cd is bonded in a 10-coordinate geometry to four equivalent Ba and six Cd atoms. There are one shorter (3.12 Å) and two longer (3.23 Å) Cd–Cd bond lengths. In the third Cd site, Cd is bonded in a 10-coordinate geometry to four equivalent Ba and six Cd atoms.