Materials Data on LiHg3 by Materials Project
LiHg3 is alpha bismuth trifluoride structured and crystallizes in the cubic Fm-3m space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Li is bonded in a body-centered cubic geometry to eight equivalent Hg atoms. All Li–Hg bond lengths are 3.10 Å. There are two inequivalent Hg sites. In the first Hg site, Hg is bonded to four equivalent Li and four equivalent Hg atoms to form a mixture of distorted corner, edge, and face-sharing HgLi4Hg4 tetrahedra. All Hg–Hg bond lengths are 3.10 Å. In the second Hg site, Hg is bonded in a body-centered cubic geometry to eight equivalent Hg atoms.