Materials Data on YbAu3 by Materials Project
YbAu3 is beta Cu3Ti structured and crystallizes in the orthorhombic Pmmn space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Yb3+ is bonded to twelve Au1- atoms to form a mixture of face, edge, and corner-sharing YbAu12 cuboctahedra. There are a spread of Yb–Au bond distances ranging from 2.92–3.08 Å. There are two inequivalent Au1- sites. In the first Au1- site, Au1- is bonded in a 12-coordinate geometry to four equivalent Yb3+ atoms. In the second Au1- site, Au1- is bonded in a distorted see-saw-like geometry to four equivalent Yb3+ atoms.