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Title: Materials Data on MgCl2 by Materials Project

Abstract

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.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Other Number(s):
mp-571387
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; EDCBEE
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). LBNL Materials Project
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Collaborations:
MIT; UC Berkeley; Duke; U Louvain
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Keywords:
crystal structure; MgCl2; Cl-Mg
OSTI Identifier:
1276230
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17188/1276230

Citation Formats

The Materials Project. Materials Data on MgCl2 by Materials Project. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.17188/1276230.
The Materials Project. Materials Data on MgCl2 by Materials Project. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.17188/1276230
The Materials Project. 2020. "Materials Data on MgCl2 by Materials Project". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.17188/1276230. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1276230. Pub date:Sat May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2020
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abstractNote = {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.},
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year = {Sat May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
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