Materials Data on AgAuCl4 by Materials Project
AgAuCl4 crystallizes in the monoclinic C2/c space group. The structure is two-dimensional and consists of two AgAuCl4 sheets oriented in the (1, 0, 0) direction. Au3+ is bonded in a square co-planar geometry to four Cl1- atoms. All Au–Cl bond lengths are 2.33 Å. Ag1+ is bonded to six Cl1- atoms to form distorted edge-sharing AgCl6 octahedra. There are a spread of Ag–Cl bond distances ranging from 2.68–3.07 Å. There are two inequivalent Cl1- sites. In the first Cl1- site, Cl1- is bonded in a 3-coordinate geometry to one Au3+ and two equivalent Ag1+ atoms. In the second Cl1- site, Cl1- is bonded in a water-like geometry to one Au3+ and one Ag1+ atom.
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