Materials Data on SmI2 by Materials Project
SmI2 is Baddeleyite-like structured and crystallizes in the orthorhombic Pbca space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Sm2+ is bonded to seven I1- atoms to form a mixture of distorted edge and corner-sharing SmI7 pentagonal bipyramids. There are a spread of Sm–I bond distances ranging from 3.13–3.37 Å. There are two inequivalent I1- sites. In the first I1- site, I1- is bonded in a distorted trigonal planar geometry to three equivalent Sm2+ atoms. In the second I1- site, I1- is bonded in a 4-coordinate geometry to four equivalent Sm2+ atoms.