Penta- and hexa-coordinated beryllium and phosphorus in high-pressure modifications of CaBe2P2O8

Beryllium in inorganic compounds is usually coordinated to four oxygen atoms, but higher coordination numbers have been predicted. Here the authors observe a pressure induced stepwise transition in CaBe2P2O8 where Be coordination changes to trigonal-bipyramidal and octahedral, implying that d orbita...

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Main Authors: Anna Pakhomova, Georgios Aprilis, Maxim Bykov, Liudmila Gorelova, Sergey S. Krivovichev, Maxim P. Belov, Igor A. Abrikosov, Leonid Dubrovinsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10589-z