Materials Data on SrI2 by Materials Project
SrI2 is Baddeleyite-like structured and crystallizes in the orthorhombic Pbca space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Sr2+ is bonded to seven I1- atoms to form a mixture of distorted edge and corner-sharing SrI7 pentagonal bipyramids. There are a spread of Sr–I bond distances ranging from 3.32–3.49 Å. There are two inequivalent I1- sites. In the first I1- site, I1- is bonded in a distorted trigonal planar geometry to three equivalent Sr2+ atoms. In the second I1- site, I1- is bonded to four equivalent Sr2+ atoms to form a mixture of distorted edge and corner-sharing ISr4 tetrahedra.