Abstract

La2USe3S2, exact composition La2USe2.96S2.04, crystallized from a reaction between USe2 and La2S3 in a molten CsCl/KCl eutectic flux and was characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction. La2USe3S2 crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group Pnma in the U3S5 structure type with lattice parameters a = 12.3284(3) A, b = 8.4028(2) A, and c = 7.3452(2) A. In La2USe3S2 all the anion sites have mixed S and Se occupancy and, henceforth, will be simply referred to as Q sites. The compound exhibits sigmoidal sheets built from LaQ8 (Q = S, Se) bicapped trigonal prisms that edge-share down the a-axis forming rectangular-shaped channels or tunnels. These tunnels are occupied by UQ6 (Q = S, Se) octahedra that edge-share to form infinite, one-dimensional chains running down the b-axis. X-ray diffraction quality single crystals of La2USe3S2 were grown from a molten CsCl/KCl eutectic flux at 950 °C and used for structure determination using single crystal X-ray diffraction. The compound crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group Pnma in the U3S5 structure type.

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