For perovskite oxides, ABO3, slight octahedral distortions have close links to functional properties. While perovskite oxide heterostructures offer a good platform for controlling functionalities, atomistic understanding of octahedral distortion at the interface has been a challenge as it requires precise measurements of the oxygen atomic positions. Here we demonstrate an approach to clarify di...

Strain engineering of functional properties in epitaxial thin films of strongly correlated oxides exhibiting octahedral-framework structures is hindered by the lack of adequate misfit relaxation models. Here we present unreported experimental evidence of a four-stage hierarchical development of octahedral-framework perturbations resulting from a progressive imbalance between electronic, elastic...

Oxygen octahedral tilts underpin the functionality of a large number of perovskite-based materials and heterostructures with competing order parameters. We show how a precise analysis of atomic column shapes in Z-contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy images can reveal polarization and octahedral tilt behavior across uncharged and charged domain walls in BiFeO(3). This method is cap...

In the title compound, [Rh(C6H5N4)Cl2(C12H27P)2], the Rh(III) ion is chelated by the singly deprotonated 2,2'-biimidazolate (Hbim(-)) ligand and coordinated by two chloride ions and two tri-n-butyl-phosphane ligands. The chloride ions and N atoms of the Hbim(-) ligand lie in a plane where the sum of X-Rh-X angles between cis sites is 360°. The phosphane ligands occupy the sites perpendicular to...

A zinc complex of the 2-benzoylpyridine thiosemicarbazone (Hbpt) ligand, Zn(bpt)2 ·DMF, has been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectra and single crystal X-ray diffraction. The molecular structure has a Zn2+ cation bonded to two perpendicular bpt ligands in a distorted octahedral geometry through two sulfur and four nitrogen atoms. The crystal contains a disordered DMF...

The crystal structure of the bicyclic hexaamine complex [Cu(fac-Me5-tricosane-N6)](ClO4)2.H2O (fac-Me5-tricosane-N6 = facial-1,5,9,13,20-pentamethyl-3,7,11,15,18,22-hexaazabicyclo[7.7.7]tricosane) at 100 K defines an apparently tetragonally compressed octahedral geometry, which is attributed to a combination of dynamic interconversion and static disorder between two tetragonally elongated struc...

The substitution of ligands in octahedral metal complexes is the most extensively mechanistically studied inorganic reaction. It is of fundamental importance, and a number of important observations and results are found. Substitution in octahedral systems was initially studied for classical coordination complexes in aqueous solutions. More recently some important observations have been made reg...

We enumerate all spaces obtained by gluing in pairs the faces of the octahedron in an orientation-reversing fashion. Whenever such a gluing gives rise to non-manifold points, we remove small open neighbourhoods of these points, so we actually deal with three-dimensional manifolds with (possibly empty) boundary. There are 298 combinatorially inequivalent gluing patterns, and we show that they de...

In this contribution, we present the first crystal structure of iron(III) salicylate without additional counterions. The octahedral complex contains two salicylate and two water molecules as ligands. One salicylate is mono-anionic while the other is di-anionic. Because of the centrosymmetry of the complex, the acidic hydrogen atom is disordered on the midpoint between two salicylate oxygens. Th...