The 1/1 and 2/1 Approximants in the Sc – Mg – Zn Quasicrystal System. Triacontahedral Clusters as Fundamental Building Blocks
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Lin, Qisheng
Corbett, John
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Single-crystal structures are reported for Sc3Mg0.18(1)Zn17.73(3), the 1/1 approximant crystal (AC), and Sc11.18(9)Mg2.5(1)Zn73.6(2), the 2/1 AC, in the corresponding icosahedral quasicrystal (i-QC) system. The 1/1 AC crystallizes in space group Im3̄, a = 13.863(2) Å, Z = 8, and the 2/1 AC, in Pa3̄, a = 22.412 (2) Å, Z = 8. The latter, which is valuable in pointing the way to the QC structure, is the best ordered and refined 2/1 example to date. The fundamental building blocks in both ACs are triacontahedral clusters centered by smaller multiply endohedral Tsai-type arrays; the former are condensed through body-centered-cubic packing in the 1/1 and primitive cubic packing in the 2/1 AC. Novel prolate rhombohedra centered by Sc−Sc dimers are also generated between triacontahedra in the 2/1 AC.
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This is an article from the Journal of the American Chemical Society 128 (2006): 13268, doi: 10.1021/ja063897u. Posted with permission.