Materials Data on K2O by Materials Project
K2O is beta Vanadium nitride-like structured and crystallizes in the triclinic P-1 space group. The structure is three-dimensional. there are two inequivalent K1+ sites. In the first K1+ site, K1+ is bonded in a distorted T-shaped geometry to three equivalent O2- atoms. There are one shorter (2.66 Å) and two longer (2.70 Å) K–O bond lengths. In the second K1+ site, K1+ is bonded in a distorted T-shaped geometry to three equivalent O2- atoms. There are a spread of K–O bond distances ranging from 2.67–2.70 Å. O2- is bonded to six K1+ atoms to form a mixture of distorted corner and edge-sharing OK6 pentagonal pyramids.