Materials Data on BaI2 by Materials Project
BaI2 is Cotunnite structured and crystallizes in the orthorhombic Pnma space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Ba2+ is bonded in a 9-coordinate geometry to nine I1- atoms. There are a spread of Ba–I bond distances ranging from 3.52–4.18 Å. There are two inequivalent I1- sites. In the first I1- site, I1- is bonded to four equivalent Ba2+ atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing IBa4 tetrahedra. In the second I1- site, I1- is bonded in a 3-coordinate geometry to five equivalent Ba2+ atoms.