Materials Data on Y2C3 by Materials Project
Y2C3 is Plutonium carbide structured and crystallizes in the cubic I-43d space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Y3+ is bonded in a 9-coordinate geometry to nine equivalent C2- atoms. There are a spread of Y–C bond distances ranging from 2.52–2.83 Å. C2- is bonded to six equivalent Y3+ and one C2- atom to form a mixture of distorted edge, face, and corner-sharing CY6C trigonal bipyramids. The C–C bond length is 1.34 Å.
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