Mishra V, Zabolotnii A, Mar A. La
4Ga
2Se
6O
3: A Rare-Earth Oxyselenide Built from One-Dimensional Strips.
Inorg Chem 2022;
61:12458-12465. [PMID:
35877612 DOI:
10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02032]
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Abstract
The oxyselenide La4Ga2Se6O3 was obtained by reaction in NaCl flux. Its monoclinic crystal structure (space group C2/c, a = 21.2832(13) Å, b = 11.6272(7) Å, c = 6.0006(4) Å, β = 106.3430(10)°, Z = 4), which is a new type, consists of strips of edge-sharing OLa4 tetrahedra and zigzag chains of corner-sharing GaSe4 tetrahedra. The separation into distinct structural blocks with mostly ionic vs covalent bonding character was supported by analysis of the electron localization function and crystal orbital bond index. An experimental band gap of 1.8 eV was extracted from optical diffuse reflectance spectra. First-principles calculations suggest that the thermoelectric power factor of this compound would be enhanced by n-doping.
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