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1Technische Universität München, Department Chemie, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, 85747 Garching bei München, Germany.
Abstract:
The first polyarsenic compound in the Cu-Cd-As system was obtained by solid-state reaction of the elements and has a refined composition of Cu(4.35 (2))Cd(1.65 (2))As(16) (tetra-copper dicadmium hexa-deca-arsenide). It adopts the Cu(5)InP(16) structure type. The asymmetric unit consists of one Cu site, a split Cu/Cd site and four As sites. The polyanionic structure can be described as being composed of As(6) rings in chair conformations which are connected in the 1-, 2-, 4- and 5-positions. The resulting layers evolve along the c axis perpendicular to the ab plane. One Cu atom exhibits site symmetry 2 and is tetra-hedrally coordinated by four As atoms. The other Cu atom, representing the split site, and the corresponding Cd atom have different coordination spheres. While the Cu atom is tetra-hedrally coordinated by four As atoms, the Cd atom has a [3 + 1] coordination with a considerably longer Cd-As distance.
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