Materials Data on NdP3 by Materials Project
NdP3 crystallizes in the tetragonal I4/mmm space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Nd3+ is bonded to twelve P1- atoms to form a mixture of face, edge, and corner-sharing NdP12 cuboctahedra. There are four shorter (2.83 Å) and eight longer (3.13 Å) Nd–P bond lengths. There are two inequivalent P1- sites. In the first P1- site, P1- is bonded in a 8-coordinate geometry to four equivalent Nd3+ and four equivalent P1- atoms. All P–P bond lengths are 2.83 Å. In the second P1- site, P1- is bonded in a square co-planar geometry to four equivalent Nd3+ atoms.