Materials Data on LaGa6 by Materials Project
LaGa6 crystallizes in the tetragonal P4/nbm space group. The structure is three-dimensional. La is bonded to twelve Ga atoms to form a mixture of distorted edge and face-sharing LaGa12 cuboctahedra. There are four shorter (3.21 Å) and eight longer (3.30 Å) La–Ga bond lengths. There are two inequivalent Ga sites. In the first Ga site, Ga is bonded in a 9-coordinate geometry to four equivalent La and five Ga atoms. There are one shorter (2.51 Å) and four longer (2.63 Å) Ga–Ga bond lengths. In the second Ga site, Ga is bonded in a 4-coordinate geometry to one La and three Ga atoms. The Ga–Ga bond length is 2.52 Å.
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