Materials Data on LaMoN3 by Materials Project
LaMoN3 crystallizes in the tetragonal P4mm space group. The structure is three-dimensional. La3+ is bonded in a 8-coordinate geometry to eight N3- atoms. There are four shorter (2.47 Å) and four longer (2.87 Å) La–N bond lengths. Mo6+ is bonded to five N3- atoms to form distorted corner-sharing MoN5 trigonal bipyramids. There is one shorter (1.78 Å) and four longer (2.02 Å) Mo–N bond length. There are two inequivalent N3- sites. In the first N3- site, N3- is bonded to two equivalent La3+ and two equivalent Mo6+ atoms to form a mixture of distorted edge and corner-sharing NLa2Mo2 tetrahedra. In the second N3- site, N3- is bonded in a distorted single-bond geometry to four equivalent La3+ and one Mo6+ atom.