Materials Data on VHO2 by Materials Project
VHO2 crystallizes in the orthorhombic Pnma space group. The structure is three-dimensional. V3+ is bonded to six O2- atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing VO6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 56°. There are a spread of V–O bond distances ranging from 1.96–2.14 Å. H1+ is bonded in a single-bond geometry to one O2- atom. The H–O bond length is 1.00 Å. There are two inequivalent O2- sites. In the first O2- site, O2- is bonded in a 3-coordinate geometry to three equivalent V3+ atoms. In the second O2- site, O2- is bonded in a distorted single-bond geometry to three equivalent V3+ and one H1+ atom.