Materials Data on P2W by Materials Project
WP2 crystallizes in the orthorhombic Cmc2_1 space group. The structure is three-dimensional. W6+ is bonded to seven P3- atoms to form a mixture of distorted corner, edge, and face-sharing WP7 pentagonal bipyramids. There are five shorter (2.50 Å) and two longer (2.51 Å) W–P bond lengths. There are two inequivalent P3- sites. In the first P3- site, P3- is bonded in a 5-coordinate geometry to four equivalent W6+ and one P3- atom. The P–P bond length is 2.17 Å. In the second P3- site, P3- is bonded in a distorted rectangular see-saw-like geometry to three equivalent W6+ and one P3- atom.