title: New bond-valence parameters for lanthanides.
abstract: The bond-valence method, especially the valence-sum rule, is very useful for checking if the structures formed by trivalent lanthanides are correct. In this work bond-valence parameters (Rij), which connect bond valences and bond lengths, have been computed for a large number of bonds taken from the Cambridge Structural Database, Version 5.24 (2002) [Allen (2002). Acta Cryst. B58, 380-388]. The calculated values of bond-valence parameters for metal-organic compounds decrease with an increase in lanthanide atomic number; the Rij values are also smaller than bond-valence parameters calculated for inorganic compounds. A summary of bond-valence sums calculated for Rij given in this work and reported in the literature, and a functional correlation between lanthanide-oxygen distances and coordination number are presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of X-ray Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry, Institute of General and Ecological Chemistry, Łódź University of Technology, 90-924 Łódź, Poland. agatat@p.lodz.pl
authors.forename: Agata
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Trzesowska
authors.forename: Rafal
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kruszynski
authors.forename: Tadeusz J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Bartczak