Materials Data on Mo4C3 by Materials Project
Mo4C3 crystallizes in the trigonal R-3m space group. The structure is two-dimensional and consists of three Mo4C3 sheets oriented in the (0, 0, 1) direction. there are two inequivalent Mo3+ sites. In the first Mo3+ site, Mo3+ is bonded to six C4- atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing MoC6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 0°. There are three shorter (2.21 Å) and three longer (2.22 Å) Mo–C bond lengths. In the second Mo3+ site, Mo3+ is bonded in a distorted T-shaped geometry to three equivalent C4- atoms. All Mo–C bond lengths are 2.06 Å. There are two inequivalent C4- sites. In the first C4- site, C4- is bonded to six Mo3+ atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing CMo6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 0°. In the second C4- site, C4- is bonded to six equivalent Mo3+ atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing CMo6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 0°.