Materials Data on Pu2Te3 by Materials Project
Pu2Te3 crystallizes in the tetragonal I-42d space group. The structure is three-dimensional. there are three inequivalent Pu3+ sites. In the first Pu3+ site, Pu3+ is bonded to eight Te2- atoms to form a mixture of distorted corner, edge, and face-sharing PuTe8 hexagonal bipyramids. There are a spread of Pu–Te bond distances ranging from 3.10–3.37 Å. In the second Pu3+ site, Pu3+ is bonded to eight Te2- atoms to form a mixture of distorted corner, edge, and face-sharing PuTe8 hexagonal bipyramids. There are a spread of Pu–Te bond distances ranging from 3.12–3.34 Å. In the third Pu3+ site, Pu3+ is bonded to eight Te2- atoms to form a mixture of distorted corner, edge, and face-sharing PuTe8 hexagonal bipyramids. There are a spread of Pu–Te bond distances ranging from 3.13–3.35 Å. There are three inequivalent Te2- sites. In the first Te2- site, Te2- is bonded in a 6-coordinate geometry to six Pu3+ atoms. In the second Te2- site, Te2- is bonded to five Pu3+ atoms to form a mixture of distorted corner, edge, and face-sharing TePu5 square pyramids. In the third Te2- site, Te2- is bonded to five Pu3+ atoms to form a mixture of distorted corner, edge, and face-sharing TePu5 square pyramids.