Materials Data on Ca5Sb3 by Materials Project
Ca5Sb3 crystallizes in the hexagonal P6_3/mcm space group. The structure is three-dimensional. there are two inequivalent Ca sites. In the first Ca site, Ca is bonded to six equivalent Sb atoms to form a mixture of distorted edge, face, and corner-sharing CaSb6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 35°. All Ca–Sb bond lengths are 3.31 Å. In the second Ca site, Ca is bonded in a 3-coordinate geometry to five equivalent Sb atoms. There are a spread of Ca–Sb bond distances ranging from 3.11–3.71 Å. Sb is bonded in a 9-coordinate geometry to nine Ca atoms.