Materials Data on Ca2LaBeO5 by Materials Project
Ca2BeLaO5 crystallizes in the orthorhombic Pnma space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Ca is bonded in a 9-coordinate geometry to nine O atoms. There are a spread of Ca–O bond distances ranging from 2.45–2.79 Å. Be is bonded in a tetrahedral geometry to four O atoms. There is two shorter (1.62 Å) and two longer (1.64 Å) Be–O bond length. La is bonded in a 8-coordinate geometry to eight O atoms. There are a spread of La–O bond distances ranging from 2.38–2.75 Å. There are four inequivalent O sites. In the first O site, O is bonded in a distorted single-bond geometry to four equivalent Ca, one Be, and one La atom. In the second O site, O is bonded in a distorted single-bond geometry to four equivalent Ca, one Be, and one La atom. In the third O site, O is bonded to four equivalent Ca and two equivalent La atoms to form distorted corner-sharing OCa4La2 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 34–44°. In the fourth O site, O is bonded in a 1-coordinate geometry to three equivalent Ca, one Be, and two equivalent La atoms.