Materials Data on YbHCl by Materials Project
YbHCl is Matlockite structured and crystallizes in the tetragonal P4/nmm space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Yb2+ is bonded in a 9-coordinate geometry to four equivalent H1- and five equivalent Cl1- atoms. All Yb–H bond lengths are 2.30 Å. There are four shorter (2.87 Å) and one longer (3.07 Å) Yb–Cl bond lengths. H1- is bonded to four equivalent Yb2+ atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing HYb4 tetrahedra. Cl1- is bonded in a 5-coordinate geometry to five equivalent Yb2+ atoms.
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