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    Garnet-type Mn3Cr2(GeO4)3
    (2012) Lipp, Christian; Strobel, Sabine; Lissner, Falk; Niewa, Rainer
    Obtained by a chemical transport reaction, the manganese(II) chromium(III) germanate Mn3Cr2(GeO4)3 crystallizes isotypically with garnet.
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    Li4Ln[PS4]2Cl : chloride-containing lithium thiophosphates with lanthanoid participation (Ln = Pr, Nd and Sm)
    (2023) Lange, Pia L.; Bette, Sebastian; Strobel, Sabine; Dinnebier, Robert E.; Schleid, Thomas
    The synthesis and structural analysis of three new chloride-containing lithium thiophosphates(V) Li4Ln[PS4]2Cl with trivalent lanthanoids (Ln = Pr, Nd and Sm) are presented and discussed. Single crystals of Li4Sm[PS4]2Cl were obtained and used for crystal structure determination by applying X-ray diffraction. The other compounds were found to crystallize isotypically in the monoclinic space group C2/c. Thus, Li4Sm[PS4]2Cl (a = 2089.31(12) pm, b = 1579.69(9) pm, c = 1309.04(8) pm, β = 109.978(3)°, Z = 12) was used as a representative model to further describe the crystal structure in detail since Li4Pr[PS4]2Cl and Li4Nd[PS4]2Cl were confirmed to be isotypic using powder X-ray diffraction measurements (PXRD). In all cases, a trigonal structure in the space group R3̲ (e.g., a = 1579.67(9) pm, c = 2818.36(16) pm, c/a = 1.784, Z = 18, for Li4Sm[PS4]2Cl) displaying almost identical building units worked initially misleadingly. The structure refinement of Li4Sm[PS4]2Cl revealed bicapped trigonal prisms of sulfur atoms coordinating the two crystallographically distinct (Sm1)3+ and (Sm2)3+ cations, which are further coordinated by four anionic [PS4]3- tetrahedra. The compounds also contain chloride anions residing within channel-like pores made of [PS4]3- units. Eight different sites for Li+ cations were identified with various coordination environments (C.N. = 4-6) with respect to chlorine and sulfur. EDXS measurements supported the stoichiometric formula of Li4Ln[PS4]2Cl, and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy revealed optical band gaps of 2.69 eV, 3.52 eV, and 3.49 eV for Li4Sm[PS4]2Cl, Li4Nd[PS4]2Cl, and Li4Pr[PS4]2Cl, respectively. The activation energy for Li+-cation mobility in Li4Sm[PS4]2Cl was calculated as Ea(Li+) = 0.88 eV using BVEL, which indicates potential as a Li+-cation conductor.
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    New crystal structures of rare‐earth metal(III) oxotellurates(IV) RE2Te3O9: A1‐type (RE=La, Ce) and A2‐type (RE=Pr, Nd)
    (2021) Chou, Sheng‐Chun; Höss, Patrick; Russ, Philip L.; Strobel, Sabine; Schleid, Thomas
    The new rare-earth metal(III) oxotellurates(IV) RE2Te3O9 (RE=La-Nd) of the so far unknown A-type structure can be obtained as needle-shaped single crystals through solid-state reactions of the corresponding binary oxides. Their crystal structures were determined as A1-type for RE=La and Ce or A2-type for RE=Pr and Nd by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Both structure types crystallize in the monoclinic crystal system, but in two different non-centrosymmetric space groups: the A1-type with Z=8 in space group P21 (La2Te3O9: a=569.54(3), b=2230.12(13), c=1464.71(4) pm, β=101.205(3)°; Ce2Te3O9: a=567.02(3), b=2222.61(13), c=1457.13(9) pm, β=101.134(3)°) or the A2-type with Z=16 in space group Cc (Pr2Te3O9: a=2838.61(16), b=563.89(3), c=2522.08(15) pm, β=118.816(3)°; Nd2Te3O9: a=2826.38(16), b=561.47(3), c=2511.94(15) pm, β=118.841(3)°). In spite of the differences in the unit-cell parameters and the symmetry, both structures consist of quite similar fundamental building blocks (FBBs) consisting of eight crystallographically distinct rare-earth metal-oxygen polyhedra with C.N.(RE3+) from seven to nine and always twelve different ψ1-tetrahedral oxotellurate(IV) anions [TeO3]2-, which show a high number of secondary bonding interactions (SBIs) with each other in all four cases.