Abstract
The lanthanide coinage-metal diarsenides LnTAs 2 ( Ln=La, Ce–Nd, Sm; T=Ag, Au) have been reinvestigated and their structures have been refined from single crystal X-ray data. Two different distortion variants of the HfCuSi 2 type are found: PrAgAs 2, NdAgAs 2, SmAgAs 2, GdAgAs 2, TbAgAs 2, NdAuAs 2 and SmAuAs 2 crystallize as twofold superstructures in space group Pmcn with the As atoms of their planar layers forming zigzag chains, whereas LaAgAs 2, CeAgAs 2 and PrAuAs 2 adopt a fourfold superstructure (space group Pmca) with cis-trans chains of As atoms. The respective atomic positions can be derived from the HfCuSi 2 type by group-subgroup relations. The compounds with zigzag chains of As atoms exhibit metallic behaviour while those with cis-trans chains are semiconducting as measured on powder pellets. The majority of the compounds including 4 f elements show antiferromagnetic ordering at T N<20 K.
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