Materials Data on AlO3 by Materials Project
AlO3 crystallizes in the monoclinic C2/c space group. The structure is two-dimensional and consists of two AlO3 sheets oriented in the (0, 0, 1) direction. Al is bonded to six O atoms to form distorted edge-sharing AlO6 octahedra. There is four shorter (1.88 Å) and two longer (1.89 Å) Al–O bond length. There are three inequivalent O sites. In the first O site, O is bonded in a bent 120 degrees geometry to two equivalent Al atoms. In the second O site, O is bonded in a bent 120 degrees geometry to two equivalent Al atoms. In the third O site, O is bonded in a water-like geometry to two equivalent Al atoms.