Materials Data on LaBiS2O by Materials Project

LaOBiS2 crystallizes in the tetragonal P4/nmm space group. The structure is two-dimensional and consists of one BiO sheet oriented in the (0, 0, 1) direction and one LaS2 sheet oriented in the (0, 0, 1) direction. In the BiO sheet, Bi3+ is bonded in a 4-coordinate geometry to four equivalent O2- atoms. All Bi–O bond lengths are 2.37 Å. O2- is bonded to four equivalent Bi3+ atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing OBi4 tetrahedra. In the LaS2 sheet, La3+ is bonded in a 6-coordinate geometry to six S2- atoms. There are a spread of La–S bond distances ranging from 2.61–3.26 Å. There are two inequivalent S2- sites. In the first S2- site, S2- is bonded in a distorted single-bond geometry to one La3+ atom. In the second S2- site, S2- is bonded to five equivalent La3+ atoms to form a mixture of distorted edge and corner-sharing SLa5 square pyramids.