Figure 1
(a) A view of the crystal structure of La21Cr8−2aAlbGe7−bC12 along [100]. (b) The same crystal structure from an arbitrary view above the ab plane. (c) Cr-deficient Cr4−aC6 substructure depicted as four tetrahedrally arranged and vertex-linked CrC3 plaquettes. (d) La3 coordination polyhedron. (e) Al2/Ge2 coordination polyhedron. In all sub-figures, colors are as follows: La (white), Cr (red), Al (green), Ge (blue), and C (black). Polyhedra are colored according to the central element. In c–e, the ellipsoids correspond to 99% probability. |