Gallium‐Indium Ordering in the Complex [Ni2Ga3In] Network of GdNi2Ga3In |
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| Authors: | Yaroslav V Galadzhun Myroslava M Horiacha Galyna P Nychyporuk Ute Ch Rodewald Rainer Pöttgen Vasyl I Zaremba |
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| Institution: | 1. Inorganic Chemistry Department, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Kyryla and Mephodiya Street 6, 79005 Lviv, Ukraine;2. Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Universit?t Münster, Corrensstrasse 30, 48149 Münster, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Polycrystalline samples of the isotypic quaternary compounds RENi2Ga3In (RE = Y, Gd – Tm) were obtained by arc‐melting of the elements. Crystals of the gadolinium compound were found by slow cooling of an arc‐melted button of the initial composition “GdNiGa3In”. All samples were characterized by powder X‐ray diffraction. The structure of GdNi2Ga2.89In1.11 was refined from single‐crystal X‐ray diffractometer data: new type, Pnma, a = 2426.38(7), b = 418.17(2), c = 927.27(3) pm, wR2 = 0.0430, 1610 F2 values and 88 variables. Two of the six crystallographically independent gallium sites show a small degree of Ga/In mixing. The nickel atoms show tricapped trigonal prismatic coordination by gadolinium, gallium, and indium. Together, the nickel, gallium, and indium atoms build up a complex three‐dimensional Ni2Ga3In]δ– network, which leaves cages for the gadolinium atoms. The indium atoms form zigzag chains with In–In distances of 337 pm. The crystal chemical similarities of the polyhedral packing in the GdNi2Ga3In and La4Pd10In21 structures are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Intermetallics Gallium Indium Crystal structure |
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