Synthese und Kristallstrukturen von DyPt8P2 und Mg10−xPt9P7

Synthesis and Crystal Structures of DyPt₈P₂ and Mg_10?xPt₉P₇ Single crystals of DyPt₈P₂ (a = 9.260(2), b = 4.005(1), c = 9.633(2) Å, β = 102.64(3)°) were grown by heating the elements in a melt of NaCl/KCl at 1100 °C. The phosphide crystallizes in a new type of structure (I2/m; Z = 2) which consists of fragments in the shape of a cubic close packing built up by three fourths of the platinum atoms. The Dy atoms are coordinated by twelve Pt and four P atoms forming a distorted hexagonal prism which is fourfold capped by Pt atoms. Needles of Mg_10?xPt₉P₇ (a = 18.121(4), b = 23.316(5), c = 3.848(1) Å) were obtained by reaction of the elements in molten lead at 1000 °C. The main feature of the new type of structure (Pbam; Z = 4) is an oval ring of pentagonal prisms formed by each six Pt and four P atoms. The prisms are linked with each other via common faces and they are centered by Mg atoms. Another Mg atoms are located in holes of the three‐dimensional [Pt₉P₇] network. It is remarkable, that one of the ten different crystallographic sites of the Mg atoms is occupied incompletely inducing the composition Mg_10?xPt₉P₇ with x = 0.86.