Materials Data on LuO2 by Materials Project
LuO2 is Baddeleyite-like structured and crystallizes in the monoclinic P2_1/m space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Lu is bonded in a 7-coordinate geometry to seven O atoms. There are a spread of Lu–O bond distances ranging from 2.21–2.38 Å. There are two inequivalent O sites. In the first O site, O is bonded in a distorted trigonal planar geometry to three equivalent Lu atoms. In the second O site, O is bonded to four equivalent Lu atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing OLu4 tetrahedra.
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