Redetermination of the crystal structures of rare-earth trirhodium diboride RERh₃B₂ (RE = Pr, Nd and Sm) from single-crystal X-ray data.

ABSTRACT: The crystal structures of the rare-earth (RE) trirhodium diborides praseo-dymium trirhodium diboride, PrRh₃B₂, neodymium trirhodium diboride, NdRh₃B₂, and samarium trirhodium diboride, SmRh₃B₂, were refined on the basis of single-crystal X-ray diffraction data. The crystal chemistry of RERh₃B₂ (RE: Pr, Nd, and Sm) compounds has previously been analyzed mainly on the basis of powder samples [Ku et al. (1980 ▸). Solid State Commun. 35, 91-96], and no structural investigation by single-crystal X-ray diffraction has been reported so far. The crystal structures of the three hexa-gonal RERh₃B₂ compounds are isotypic with that of CeRh₃

SUBMITTER: Tokuda M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8739198 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature