Materials Data on SmGa6 by Materials Project
SmGa6 crystallizes in the tetragonal P4/nbm space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Sm is bonded to twelve Ga atoms to form a mixture of distorted edge and face-sharing SmGa12 cuboctahedra. There are four shorter (3.14 Å) and eight longer (3.27 Å) Sm–Ga bond lengths. There are two inequivalent Ga sites. In the first Ga site, Ga is bonded in a 9-coordinate geometry to four equivalent Sm and five Ga atoms. There are one shorter (2.47 Å) and four longer (2.61 Å) Ga–Ga bond lengths. In the second Ga site, Ga is bonded in a 4-coordinate geometry to one Sm and three Ga atoms. The Ga–Ga bond length is 2.49 Å.