Materials Data on Cs2PdCl4 by Materials Project
Cs2PdCl4 crystallizes in the orthorhombic Cmcm space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Cs1+ is bonded in a body-centered cubic geometry to eight Cl1- atoms. There are four shorter (3.61 Å) and four longer (3.62 Å) Cs–Cl bond lengths. Pd2+ is bonded in a square co-planar geometry to four Cl1- atoms. All Pd–Cl bond lengths are 2.34 Å. There are two inequivalent Cl1- sites. In the first Cl1- site, Cl1- is bonded to four equivalent Cs1+ and one Pd2+ atom to form a mixture of distorted corner, edge, and face-sharing ClCs4Pd square pyramids. In the second Cl1- site, Cl1- is bonded to four equivalent Cs1+ and one Pd2+ atom to form a mixture of distorted corner, edge, and face-sharing ClCs4Pd square pyramids.
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