Crystal structure of the Tl₄PbSe₃ ternary compound

Chem. Met. Alloys 2 (2009) 00-00

T.O. MALAKHOVSKA, M.Yu. SABOV, E.Yu. PERESH, V. PAVLYUK, B. MARCINIAK

Tl₄PbSe₃ was prepared by reaction of the elemental components in quartz ampoules at 850 K. Its crystal structure was solved and refined from X-ray single crystal data. Tl₄PbSe₃ is isotypic with Tl₄SnS₃ and crystallizes in the centrosymmetric space group P4/ncc (a=8.5346(2) Å, c=12.6871(7) Å), as a distorted derivative of the In₅Bi₃ type of structure.

Projection of the structure of Tl₄PbSe₃ showing the packing of [PbSe₆] octahedra.

Keywords

Intermetallics / Crystal structure / X-ray diffraction