Acta Cryst. (2004). E60, i72-i73  [ doi:10.1107/S1600536804011043 ]

Trisodium yttrium(III) hexachloride

W. Liao and R. Dronskowski

Abstract: Colourless single crystals of Na₃YCl₆, crystallizing in the cryolite structure type and isotypic with Na₃GdCl₆-II and Na₃MCl₆ (M = Sc, Dy-Lu), were prepared from a flux of YCl₃, NaCN and NaN₃; the trivalent yttrium is octahedrally coordinated by chlorine atoms with an average Y-Cl distance of 2.62 Å. The Y atom and one Na atom lie on centres of symmetry.

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