LiCe9Mo16O35

Abstract

The structure of lithium nonacerium hexadecamolybdenum pentatridecaoxide, LiCe9Mo16O35, is isotypic with LiNd9Mo16O35 [Gougeon Gall, Cuny, Gautier, Le Polles, Delevoye & Trebosc (2011). Chem. Eur. J. 17, 13806–13813]. It is characterized by Mo16O26iO10a units (where i = inner and a = apical) containing Mo16 clusters that share some of their O atoms to form infinite molybdenum cluster chains running parallel to the b axis and separated by Li+ and Ce3+ cations. The Mo16 cluster units are centred at Wyckoff positions 2c and have point-group symmetry 2/m. The Li+ atom, in a flattened octahedron of O atoms, is in a 2a Wyckoff position with 2/m symmetry. The Ce3+ cations have coordination numbers to the O atoms of 6, 9 or 10. Two Ce, two Mo and five O atoms lie on sites with m symmetry (Wyckoff site 4i), and one Ce and one O atom on sites with 2/m symmetry (Wyckoff sites 2b and 2d, respectively).