Materials Data on Sr2LaI7 by Materials Project
Sr2LaI7 crystallizes in the monoclinic P2_1/c space group. The structure is three-dimensional. there are two inequivalent Sr2+ sites. In the first Sr2+ site, Sr2+ is bonded in a 9-coordinate geometry to nine I1- atoms. There are a spread of Sr–I bond distances ranging from 3.44–3.91 Å. In the second Sr2+ site, Sr2+ is bonded in a 8-coordinate geometry to eight I1- atoms. There are a spread of Sr–I bond distances ranging from 3.42–3.91 Å. La3+ is bonded in a distorted pentagonal bipyramidal geometry to seven I1- atoms. There are a spread of La–I bond distances ranging from 3.17–3.36 Å. There are seven inequivalent I1- sites. In the first I1- site, I1- is bonded in a distorted trigonal non-coplanar geometry to two Sr2+ and one La3+ atom. In the second I1- site, I1- is bonded in a 4-coordinate geometry to three Sr2+ and one La3+ atom. In the third I1- site, I1- is bonded in a distorted trigonal non-coplanar geometry to two Sr2+ and one La3+ atom. In the fourth I1- site, I1- is bonded in a 3-coordinate geometry to two Sr2+ and one La3+ atom. In the fifth I1- site, I1- is bonded in a 3-coordinate geometry to two Sr2+ and one La3+ atom. In the sixth I1- site, I1- is bonded to three Sr2+ and one La3+ atom to form a mixture of corner and edge-sharing ISr3La tetrahedra. In the seventh I1- site, I1- is bonded to three Sr2+ and one La3+ atom to form a mixture of distorted corner and edge-sharing ISr3La tetrahedra.