Ellipsoidal analysis of coordination polyhedra

Simple polyhedra in crystalline compounds are often deformed, so methods for analysing their distortions are useful. Here, the authors demonstrate that analysis of the minimum bounding ellipsoid of a coordination polyhedron provides a general method for studying distortion.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: James Cumby, J. Paul Attfield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14235