Materials Data on MoCl3 by Materials Project
MoCl3 is Aluminum trichloride structured and crystallizes in the monoclinic C2/m space group. The structure is two-dimensional and consists of one MoCl3 sheet oriented in the (0, 0, 1) direction. Mo3+ is bonded to six Cl1- atoms to form edge-sharing MoCl6 octahedra. There are a spread of Mo–Cl bond distances ranging from 2.40–2.50 Å. There are two inequivalent Cl1- sites. In the first Cl1- site, Cl1- is bonded in a distorted L-shaped geometry to two equivalent Mo3+ atoms. In the second Cl1- site, Cl1- is bonded in a water-like geometry to two equivalent Mo3+ atoms.