Cd4As2Br3.
Single crystals of Cd4As2Br3 (tetra-cadmium biarsenide tri-bromide) were grown by a chemical transport reaction. The structure is isotypic with the members of the cadmium and mercury pnictidohalides family with general formula M 4 A 2 X 3 (M = Cd, Hg; A = P, As, Sb; X = Cl, Br, I) and contains two independent As atoms on special positions with site symmetry -3 and two independent Cd atoms, of which one is on a special position with site symmetry -3. The Cd4As2Br3 structure consists of AsCd4 tetra-hedra sharing vertices with isolated As2Cd6 octa-hedra that contain As-As dumbbells in the centre of the octahedron. The Br atoms are located in the voids of this three-dimensional arrangement and bridge the different polyhedra through Cd⋯Br contacts.
Université Houari-Boumedienne, Faculté de Chimie, Laboratoire Sciences des Matériaux, BP 32 El-Alia Bab-Ezzouar, Algeria.
Mohammed
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Kars
Centre de Diffractométrie X, Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226 CNRS Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, Avenue du Général Leclerc, France.
Thierry
T
Roisnel
Centre de Diffractométrie X, Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226 CNRS Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, Avenue du Général Leclerc, France.
Vincent
V
Dorcet
Université Houari-Boumedienne, Faculté de Chimie, Laboratoire Sciences des Matériaux, BP 32 El-Alia Bab-Ezzouar, Algeria.
Allaoua
A
Rebbah
Departomento Inorgánica, Facultad C.C. Químicas, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
L Carlos
LC
Otero-Diáz