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New mercury arsenide iodide Hg4AsI5 was synthesized and its crystal and electronic structure was determined. The crystal structure is layered. The layers are composed of alternating AsHg4 tetrahedra and IHg8 Archimedean antiprisms and are bound by the iodine atoms, which form short Hg-I bonds with all mercury atoms. Band structure calculations provided evidence for very weak interactions between the iodine atoms of the adjacent layers and the ionic character of the iodine atom centering the Archimedean antiprism. Hence, individual [AsHg4I4]+ clusters and I− anions can be distinguished.
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Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 736–739, May, 2006.
Additional details of the crystal structure study (deposition number CSD-416238) can be obtained from the Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe, D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany, fax: +(49)7247-808-666; e-mail: crysdata@fiz-karlsruhe.de.
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Oleneva, O.S., Shestimerova, T.A., Olenev, A.V. et al. Synthesis and the crystal and electronic structure of Hg4AsI5 . Russ Chem Bull 55, 762–765 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11172-006-0329-5
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