Materials Data on MgCl2 by Materials Project
MgCl2 is trigonal omega structured and crystallizes in the trigonal P-3m1 space group. The structure is two-dimensional and consists of one MgCl2 sheet oriented in the (0, 0, 1) direction. Mg2+ is bonded to six equivalent Cl1- atoms to form edge-sharing MgCl6 octahedra. All Mg–Cl bond lengths are 2.53 Å. Cl1- is bonded in a distorted T-shaped geometry to three equivalent Mg2+ atoms.
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