Abstract
Sr(14/11)CoO(3) (i.e. Sr(14)Co(11)O(33), tetradecastrontium undecacobalt tritriacontaoxide), a new phase in the hexagonal perovskite Sr(x)CoO(3) system, has been prepared and its structure solved from single-crystal X-ray data within the (3 + 1)-dimensional formalism. Sr(14/11)CoO(3) crystallizes in the trigonal symmetry, R3;m(00gamma)0s superspace group with the following lattice parameters: a(s) = 9.508 (2), c(s) = 2.5343 (7) Å, q = 0.63646 (11)c(*) and V(s) = 198.40 (13) Å(3). With the commensurate versus incommensurate test not being conclusive, the structure was considered as commensurate (P32 three-dimensional space group), but refined within the (3 + 1)-dimensional formalism to a residual factor R = 0.0351 for 47 parameters and 1169 independent reflections. Crenel functions were used for the oxygen and cobalt description and a Gram-Charlier expansion up to the third order of the atomic displacement parameter was employed for one Co atom. The structure is similar to that of Sr(6/5)CoO(3), but with a different sequence of the octahedra and trigonal prism polyhedra along the [CoO(3)] chains. An interesting feature evidenced by the non-harmonic expansion is the displacement of the prismatic Co atoms from the site center, towards the prism rectangular faces.
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