Materials Data on V2CoO6 by Materials Project
CoV2O6 crystallizes in the monoclinic C2/m space group. The structure is three-dimensional. V5+ is bonded in a 5-coordinate geometry to five O2- atoms. There are a spread of V–O bond distances ranging from 1.69–2.11 Å. Co2+ is bonded to six O2- atoms to form edge-sharing CoO6 octahedra. There are two shorter (1.97 Å) and four longer (2.21 Å) Co–O bond lengths. There are three inequivalent O2- sites. In the first O2- site, O2- is bonded in a distorted trigonal non-coplanar geometry to three equivalent V5+ atoms. In the second O2- site, O2- is bonded in a bent 150 degrees geometry to one V5+ and one Co2+ atom. In the third O2- site, O2- is bonded in a distorted trigonal planar geometry to one V5+ and two equivalent Co2+ atoms.