Materials Data on WCl4 by Materials Project
WCl4 crystallizes in the monoclinic C2/m space group. The structure is one-dimensional and consists of two WCl4 ribbons oriented in the (0, 1, 0) direction. W4+ is bonded to six Cl1- atoms to form edge-sharing WCl6 octahedra. There are a spread of W–Cl bond distances ranging from 2.31–2.53 Å. There are three inequivalent Cl1- sites. In the first Cl1- site, Cl1- is bonded in a water-like geometry to two equivalent W4+ atoms. In the second Cl1- site, Cl1- is bonded in a 2-coordinate geometry to two equivalent W4+ atoms. In the third Cl1- site, Cl1- is bonded in a single-bond geometry to one W4+ atom.
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