Figure 7
Coordination environment of bismuth in Bi[VO4], viewed from three different perspectives, corresponding to the optimal orientation of an equilateral bicapped trigonal prism (left), an equilateral tetragonal antiprism (center) and an equilateral triangular dodecahedron (right). Distortion values quantify the fit of the aforementioned rigid equilateral models, as well as dynamic models which share the basic structure of the rigid models, but are otherwise only constrained by the respective point group. |