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Crystal structure of europium dichromium icosaaluminum, EuCr2Al20

  • Aylin Koldemir , Steffen Klenner und Rainer Pöttgen ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 8. März 2023

Abstract

EuCr2Al20, cubic, F d 3 m (no. 227), a = 14.5245(7) Å, V = 3064.1(3) Å3, Z = 8, R gt (F) = 0.0351, wR ref (F 2) = 0.0402, T = 293 K.

CCDC no.: 2244988

The structure is shown in the figure. Table 1 contains crystallographic data and Table 2 contains the list of the atoms including atomic coordinates and displacement parameters.

Table 1:

Data collection and handling.

Crystal: Silvery irregular shape
Size: 0.04 × 0.06 × 0.08 mm
Wavelength: Mo Kα radiation (0.71073 Å)
μ: 6.31 mm−1
Diffractometer, scan mode: IPDS Stoe
θ max, completeness: 33.4°, 99%
N(hkl)measured, N(hkl)unique, R int: 16,086, 325, 0.119
Criterion for I obs, N(hkl)gt: I obs > 2σ(I obs), 267
N(param)refined: 18
Programs: X-Area [1], JANA2006 [2]
Table 2:

Fractional atomic coordinates and isotropic or equivalent isotropic displacement parameters (Å2).

Atom x y z U iso*/U eq
Eu1a 0.125 0.125 0.125 0.00870 (8)
Cr1 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.00697 (12)
Al1 0.05861 (4) 0.05861 (4) 0.32600 (5) 0.01114 (17)
Al2 0.48756 (7) 0.125 0.125 0.0088 (2)
Al3 0 0 0 0.0225 (3)
  1. aOccupancy: 0.938 (5).

Cutout of the EuCr2Al20 structure. Chromium and aluminum atoms are drawn as blue and magenta circles, respectively. The condensation pattern of the Eu@Al16 and Cr@Al12 polyhedra is emphasized. The left-hand drawing shows the chromium substructure.

1 Source of material

The aluminum-rich phases EuT 2Al20 (T = Ti, V, Cr, Nb, Mo, Ta, W) were obtained by reaction of the elements using the aluminum self-flux technique [3]. Starting materials were europium ingots (American Elements, 99.99%), titanium (Strem Chemicals, 99.7%), chromium (Alfa Aesar, 99.95%), niobium (Alfa Aesar, 99.6%), molybdenum (Ventron, 99.9%), tantalum (Strem Chemicals, 99.98%) and tungsten (Strem Chemicals, 99.95%) powder, vanadium sheet (Alfa Aesar, 99.7%) and aluminum turnings (Koch Chemicals, 99.9%). The elements were mixed in the atomic ratios Eu:T:Al = 1:2:40, placed in alumina crucibles and sealed in evacuated silica ampoules. The mixtures were heated to 1120 K at a rate of 50 K/h, kept for 300 h and finally cooled to room temperature at a rate of 6 K/h. The excess aluminum was dissolved in diluted hydrochloric acid.

2 Experimental details

The phase purity of the polycrystalline products was investigated by means of powder X-ray diffraction (Enraf-Nonius FR552 Guinier camera, imaging plate detector, Fujifilm BAS-1800 read-out system, Cu-K α1 radiation and α-quartz (a = 491.30 and c = 540.46 pm) as an internal standard. The refined lattice parameter (1448.77(5) pm) agrees with the earlier study (1479.7(2) pm) [4]. EuCr2Al20 crystals were selected from the mechanically fragmented sample extracted from the aluminum flux. The crystal quality was tested through Laue photographs (Buerger camera, image plate detection system). Single crystal X-ray diffraction was performed at room temperature on a Stoe IPDS-II diffractometer (graphite monochromatized Mo- K α radiation; oscillation mode). A numerical absorption correction was applied. The starting atomic parameters were deduced with the charge-flipping algorithm [5] implemented in Superflip [6] and the structure was refined on F 2 with the Jana2006 software package [2], with anisotropic displacement parameters for all atoms. Separate refinement of the occupancy parameters indicated a small degree of defects for the 8a europium site. This occupancy parameter was refined as least-squares variable in the final cycles, leading to the composition Eu0.938(5)Cr2Al20 for the studied crystal. An EDX analyses of the crystal (5 ± 1% Eu: 11 ± 1% Cr: 84 ± 1% Al) confirmed the refined composition.

3 Comment

EuCr2Al20 crystallizes with the CeCr2Al20 type structure [7], space group F d 3 m (the so-called diamond space group). The single crystal data fully confirm the previous studies [4, 8] based on powder X-ray diffraction. Although the EuCr2Al20 unit cell is large and comprises 184 atoms, it can easily be described with a condensation pattern of two Frank–Kasper [9, 10] polyhedra. From a geometrical point of view, the substructure build up by the europium and chromium atoms corresponds to the MgCu2 type (cubic Laves phase). In the figure we present a cutout of the EuCr2Al20 structure. The left-hand part emphasizes the chromium substructure which consists of condensed Cr4 tetrahedra with 513 pm d (Cr–Cr). The cavities left by the tetrahedral network are filled by the europium atoms which are surrounded by 16 aluminum atoms (4× Al3 and 12× Al1, see Table 3). These Eu@Al16 polyhedra are condensed via common corners. The chromium atoms have 12 aluminum neighbors in icosahedral coordination and also these Cr@Al12 polyhedra (6× Al2 and 6× Al1) are condensed via common corners (right-hand part of the figure). The Cr–Al distances in the EuCr2Al20 structure range from 257 to 280 pm and are larger than the sum of the covalent radii of 243 pm for Cr + Al [11]. The three crystallographically independent aluminum atoms show a broader range of Al–Al distances (271–311 pm). These are comparable with fcc aluminum (12 × 286 pm) [12]. A comment is appropriate for the slight europium deficiency (93.8(5)%) observed from the refinement of the occupancy parameters. Such defects have been observed in few of the CeCr2Al20 type phases, e.g. 95.8(3%) praseodymium occupancy in PrV2Al20 [13]. Several of the CeCr2Al20 type phases have been studied with respect to rattling of the rare earth atom within the Al16 cage. Such anharmonic oscillations are favorable for thermoelectric materials, where suppression of the thermal conductivity enhances the thermoelectric efficiency.

Table 3:

Interatomic distances (/pm) in the first coordination spheres of europium and chromium.

Eu: 4 Al3 314.5 (1) Cr: 6 Al2 257.4 (1)
12 Al1 322.2 (1) 6 Al1 279.9 (1)

EuCr2Al20 and the isotypic aluminides EuT 2Al20 with T = Ti, V, Nb, Ta, Mo and W were studied by 151Eu Mössbauer spectroscopy at room temperature. The isomer shifts (Table 4) show a narrow range from −8.34(1) mm s−1 (EuCr2Al20) to −8.97(2) mm s−1 (EuW2Al20). The spectra gave no hint for any Eu(III) contribution. The isomer shift values are in the usual range observed for divalent europium intermetallics with pronounced covalent bonding. This is in close agreement with the magnetic behavior of these europium intermetallics [8, 14, 15]. The course of the isomer shifts shows no simple correlation with the valence electron count and the lattice parameter.

Table 4:

Fitting parameters for 151Eu Mössbauer spectra of aluminides EuT 2Al20. The measurements were carried out in transmission geometry with a 151Sm:EuF3 source at room temperature. δ = isomer shift, Γ = experimental line width. Due to the cubic site symmetry of europium, no quadrupole splitting occurs. The lattice parameters and the valence electron count are listed for comparison.

Compound δ/mm s−1 Γ/mm s−1 a/pm VEC
EuTi2Al20 −8.77 (1) 2.49 (3) 1472.26 (5) 70
EuV2Al20 −8.58 (1) 2.43 (3) 1454.92 (7) 72
EuNb2Al20 −8.94 (1) 2.55 (4) 1478.3 (2) 72
EuTa2Al20 −8.94 (2) 2.50 (6) 1477.27 (9) 72
EuCr2Al20 −8.34 (1) 2.53 (2) 1448.77 (5) 74
EuMo2Al20 −8.54 (1) 2.50 (3) 1460.56 (6) 74
EuW2Al20 −8.97 (2) 2.51 (6) 1459.81 (4) 74

Corresponding author: Rainer Pöttgen, Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Universität Münster, Corrensstrasse 30, 48149 Münster, Germany, E-mail:

Acknowledgements

We thank Dipl.–Ing. J. Kösters for the intensity data collection.

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Received: 2023-02-06
Accepted: 2023-02-27
Published Online: 2023-03-08
Published in Print: 2023-06-27

© 2023 the author(s), published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

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