Materials Data on NaCu3 by Materials Project
NaCu3 is Uranium Silicide-like structured and crystallizes in the tetragonal I4/mmm space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Na is bonded to twelve Cu atoms to form a mixture of edge, face, and corner-sharing NaCu12 cuboctahedra. There are four shorter (2.69 Å) and eight longer (2.72 Å) Na–Cu bond lengths. There are two inequivalent Cu sites. In the first Cu site, Cu is bonded to four equivalent Na atoms to form a mixture of distorted edge and corner-sharing CuNa4 cuboctahedra. In the second Cu site, Cu is bonded in a distorted square co-planar geometry to four equivalent Na atoms.