Materials Data on Tb3BCl3 by Materials Project
Tb3BCl3 crystallizes in the cubic I4_132 space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Tb is bonded to two equivalent B and four equivalent Cl atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing TbB2Cl4 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 5–8°. Both Tb–B bond lengths are 2.58 Å. There are two shorter (2.82 Å) and two longer (2.92 Å) Tb–Cl bond lengths. B is bonded to six equivalent Tb atoms to form edge-sharing BTb6 octahedra. Cl is bonded in a rectangular see-saw-like geometry to four equivalent Tb atoms.
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