Materials Data on CoGe2 by Materials Project
CoGe2 crystallizes in the orthorhombic Cmce space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Co is bonded in a 8-coordinate geometry to one Co and eight Ge atoms. The Co–Co bond length is 2.55 Å. There are four shorter (2.48 Å) and four longer (2.49 Å) Co–Ge bond lengths. There are two inequivalent Ge sites. In the first Ge site, Ge is bonded in a 7-coordinate geometry to four equivalent Co and one Ge atom. The Ge–Ge bond length is 2.55 Å. In the second Ge site, Ge is bonded to four equivalent Co atoms to form a mixture of distorted edge and corner-sharing GeCo4 tetrahedra.