Materials Data on MgCl2 by Materials Project

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DOI:https://doi.org/10.17188/1276230· OSTI ID:1276230

The Materials Project

MgCl2 crystallizes in the orthorhombic Pmma space group. The structure is two-dimensional and consists of one MgCl2 sheet oriented in the (0, 0, 1) direction. Mg2+ is bonded to six Cl1- atoms to form a mixture of edge, face, and corner-sharing MgCl6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 50°. There are two shorter (2.38 Å) and four longer (2.67 Å) Mg–Cl bond lengths. There are two inequivalent Cl1- sites. In the first Cl1- site, Cl1- is bonded in an L-shaped geometry to two equivalent Mg2+ atoms. In the second Cl1- site, Cl1- is bonded in a 4-coordinate geometry to four equivalent Mg2+ atoms.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). LBNL Materials Project
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
• Contributing Organization: MIT; UC Berkeley; Duke; U Louvain
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231; EDCBEE
• OSTI ID: 1276230
• Report Number(s): mp-571387
• Resource Relation: Related Information: https://materialsproject.org/citing
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

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