Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes

AFLOW Prototype: AB_oP8_62_c_c.MnP

  • M. J. Mehl, D. Hicks, C. Toher, O. Levy, R. M. Hanson, G. L. W. Hart, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 1, Comp. Mat. Sci. 136, S1-S828 (2017). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.01.017)
  • D. Hicks, M. J. Mehl, E. Gossett, C. Toher, O. Levy, R. M. Hanson, G. L. W. Hart, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 2, Comp. Mat. Sci. 161, S1-S1011 (2019). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.10.043)
  • D. Hicks, M.J. Mehl, M. Esters, C. Oses, O. Levy, G.L.W. Hart, C. Toher, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 3, Comp. Mat. Sci. 199, 110450 (2021). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2021.110450)

MnP ($B31$) Structure: AB_oP8_62_c_c

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Prototype : MnP
AFLOW prototype label : AB_oP8_62_c_c
Strukturbericht designation : $B31$
Pearson symbol : oP8
Space group number : 62
Space group symbol : $\text{Pnma}$
AFLOW prototype command : aflow --proto=AB_oP8_62_c_c
--params=
$a$,$b/a$,$c/a$,$x_{1}$,$z_{1}$,$x_{2}$,$z_{2}$


Other compounds with this structure

  • AsCo, AsCr, AsFe, AsMn, AsRh, AsRu, AsV, AuGa, CoP, CoP, CrP, CrP, CrP, CrP, FeP, FeP, FeS, GeIr, GeNi, GePd, GePt, GeRh, IrSi, NiSi, PRu, PW, PdSi, PtSi, RhSb, RhSi, RhSi, and SeTi

  • (Hermann, 1937), 7, assigns the prototype FeAs and the Strukturbericht designation B14 to this structure. This was superseded by the similar MnP structure in (Gottfried, 1937) 17-18, where it is designated B31. Note that (Parthé, 1993) prefers the B14 designation. Note that GeS (AB_oP8_62_c_c, GeS), MnP (AB_oP8_62_c_c, MnP), FeB (AB_oP8_62_c_c, FeB), and SnS (AB_oP8_62_c_c, SnS) have the same AFLOW prototype label. They are generated by the same symmetry operations with different sets of parameters (––params) specified in their corresponding CIF files.

Simple Orthorhombic primitive vectors:

\[ \begin{array}{ccc} \mathbf{a}_1 & = & a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} \\ \mathbf{a}_2 & = & b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} \\ \mathbf{a}_3 & = & c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} \end{array} \]

Basis vectors:

\[ \begin{array}{ccccccc} & & \text{Lattice Coordinates} & & \text{Cartesian Coordinates} &\text{Wyckoff Position} & \text{Atom Type} \\ \mathbf{B}_{1} & =&x_{1} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac14 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ z_{1} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&x_{1} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac14 \, b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ z_{1} \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4c\right) & \text{Mn} \\ \mathbf{B}_{2} & =&\left(\frac12 - x_{1}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac34 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \left(\frac12 + z_{1}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&\left(\frac12 - x_{1}\right) \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac34 \, b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \left(\frac12 + z_{1}\right) \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4c\right) & \text{Mn} \\ \mathbf{B}_{3} & =&- x_{1} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac34 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}- z_{1} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&- x_{1} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac34 \, b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}- z_{1} \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4c\right) & \text{Mn} \\ \mathbf{B}_{4} & =&\left(\frac12 + x_{1}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac14 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \left(\frac12 - z_{1}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&\left(\frac12 + x_{1}\right) \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac14 \, b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \left(\frac12 - z_{1}\right) \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4c\right) & \text{Mn} \\ \mathbf{B}_{5} & =&x_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac14 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&x_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac14 \, b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ z_{2} \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4c\right) & \text{P} \\ \mathbf{B}_{6} & =&\left(\frac12 - x_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac34 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \left(\frac12 + z_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&\left(\frac12 - x_{2}\right) \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac34 \, b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \left(\frac12 + z_{2}\right) \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4c\right) & \text{P} \\ \mathbf{B}_{7} & =&- x_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac34 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}- z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&- x_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac34 \, b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}- z_{2} \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4c\right) & \text{P} \\ \mathbf{B}_{8} & =&\left(\frac12 + x_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac14 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \left(\frac12 - z_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&\left(\frac12 + x_{2}\right) \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac14 \, b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \left(\frac12 - z_{2}\right) \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4c\right) & \text{P} \\ \end{array} \]

References

  • H. Fjellvåg and A. Kjekshus, Magnetic and Structural Properties of Transition Metal Substituted MnP. I. Mn1–tCotP (0.00≤ t ≤ 0.30), Acta Chemica Scandinvaca A 38, 563–573 (1984), doi:10.3891/acta.chem.scand.38a-0563.
  • C. Hermann, O. Lohrmann, and H. Philipp, Strukturbericht Band II, 1928–1932 (Akademsiche Verlagsgesellschaft M. B. H., Leipzig, 1937).
  • C. Gottfried and F. Schossberger, Strukturbericht Band III, 1933–1935 (Akademsiche Verlagsgesellschaft M. B. H., Leipzig, 1937).
  • E. Parthé, L. M. Gelato, B. Chabot, M. Penzo, K. Cenzula, and R. Gladyshevskii, Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry: Standardized Data and Crystal Chemical Characterization of Inorganic Structure Types (Springer–Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg, 1993), 8th edn., doi:10.1007/978-3-662-02909-1_3. Online edition available at DOI. See Table 4.3, pp. 363–371, for a comprehensive compilation of Strukturbericht symbols.

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