Materials Data on Cs2LiCl3 by Materials Project
Cs2LiCl3 crystallizes in the orthorhombic Cmcm space group. The structure is three-dimensional. there are two inequivalent Cs1+ sites. In the first Cs1+ site, Cs1+ is bonded in a body-centered cubic geometry to eight equivalent Cl1- atoms. There are four shorter (3.52 Å) and four longer (3.62 Å) Cs–Cl bond lengths. In the second Cs1+ site, Cs1+ is bonded in a 8-coordinate geometry to eight Cl1- atoms. There are a spread of Cs–Cl bond distances ranging from 3.53–3.98 Å. Li1+ is bonded to four Cl1- atoms to form corner-sharing LiCl4 tetrahedra. There are two shorter (2.40 Å) and two longer (2.49 Å) Li–Cl bond lengths. There are two inequivalent Cl1- sites. In the first Cl1- site, Cl1- is bonded in a distorted bent 120 degrees geometry to four equivalent Cs1+ and two equivalent Li1+ atoms. In the second Cl1- site, Cl1- is bonded in a distorted single-bond geometry to six Cs1+ and one Li1+ atom.