Materials Data on CeTe2 by Materials Project
CeTe2 crystallizes in the tetragonal P4/nmm space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Ce4+ is bonded in a 9-coordinate geometry to nine Te2- atoms. There are one shorter (3.26 Å) and eight longer (3.32 Å) Ce–Te bond lengths. There are two inequivalent Te2- sites. In the first Te2- site, Te2- is bonded in a 8-coordinate geometry to four equivalent Ce4+ and four equivalent Te2- atoms. All Te–Te bond lengths are 3.19 Å. In the second Te2- site, Te2- is bonded to five equivalent Ce4+ atoms to form a mixture of distorted edge and corner-sharing TeCe5 trigonal bipyramids.