《Lanthanoid Rhenium Aluminides with a High Content of Aluminum》.pdf

3344 Inorg. Chem. 1999, 38, Lanthanoid Rhenium Aluminides with a High Content of Aluminum: LnRe Al (Ln 2 10 HoLu) with a New Structure Type and NdRe Al with CaCr Al -Type Structure 2 10 2 10 Birgit Fehrmann and Wolfgang Jeitschko* Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut, Universita¨t Mu¨nster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Strasse 8, D-48149 Mu¨nster, Germany Recei ed January 12, 1999 The title compounds were obtained by reaction of the elemental components with an excess of aluminum after dissolving the matrix in hydrochloric acid. The compounds LnRe2Al10 (Ln HoLu) crystallize with a new structure type, which was determined from single-crystal X-ray data of LuRe2Al10: Cmcm, a 929.1(1) pm, b 1027.7(2) pm, c 2684.1(5) pm, Z 12. The two different lutetium atoms of the structure are coordinated by four rhenium and 16 aluminum atoms, while the two rhenium positions are in distorted icosahedral coordination of two lutetium and 10 aluminum atoms. The 12 different aluminum atoms have between 12 and 14 neighbors, of which two are rhenium and one or two are lutetium atoms. The structure may be considered as a stacking variant of the recently determined structure of YbFe2Al10. Both structures are related to that of ThMn12. They contain hexagonally close-pac