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ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B-STRUCTURAL SCIENCE
Volume 56, Issue -, Pages 173-182Publisher
MUNKSGAARD INT PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.1107/S0108768199012586
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The structure of the misfit layer compound [Bi0.87SrO2](2)[CoO2](1.82), bismuth strontium cobaltite, was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction using the five-dimensional superspace-group formalism. This composite crystal, of monoclinic symmetry, is composed of two subsystems exhibiting incommensurate periodicities along b, the binary axis direction. The first composite part [Bi0.87SrO2] displays an intrinsic modulation of planar monoclinic type characterized by the wavevector q* = 0.293a* + 0.915c*. The second composite part [CoO2] shows two different centered lattice variants. The structure of the misfit layer crystal can be described as an alternation along c of distorted rock-salt-type slabs, formed from [BiO] and [SrO] layers (first subsystem), and of [CoO2] layers (second subsystem) displaying a distorted CdI2-type structure. Two main structural results are obtained. First, as a consequence of the intrinsic modulation, disordered zones, characterized by Bi vacancies, are regularly distributed in the [BiO] layers. Second, strong chemical bonds are implied between the strontium atoms of the first subsystem and the oxygen atoms of the second one.
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