Materials Data on GdS2 by Materials Project
GdS2 crystallizes in the tetragonal P4/nmm space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Gd3+ is bonded in a 9-coordinate geometry to nine S+1.50- atoms. There are a spread of Gd–S bond distances ranging from 2.85–2.94 Å. There are two inequivalent S+1.50- sites. In the first S+1.50- site, S+1.50- is bonded in a 8-coordinate geometry to four equivalent Gd3+ and four equivalent S+1.50- atoms. All S–S bond lengths are 2.75 Å. In the second S+1.50- site, S+1.50- is bonded to five equivalent Gd3+ atoms to form a mixture of distorted edge and corner-sharing SGd5 trigonal bipyramids.