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[Zn₂(Benzoato)₄(Caffeine)₂]cdot2 -- Caffeine (C₃₀H₃₀N₈O₈Zn)

Monoclinic · space group P121/c1 (No. 14) · Pearson mP308

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

[Zn₂(Benzoato)₄(Caffeine)₂]cdot2 -- Caffeine (C₃₀H₃₀N₈O₈Zn) in P121/c1

Setting
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x = 0.10, y = 0.17, z = 0.08

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 12.907 Å, b = 22.185 Å, c = 18.270 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 143.88°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
3084.2 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
308 (C 120, H 120, N 32, O 32, Zn 4)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
mP308 — monoclinic, primitive lattice, 308 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
4 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
C10C4e40.46450.46880.0982
C1C4e40.27590.39880.0080
C11C4e40.97330.60720.9317
C12C4e40.96560.67050.8964
C13C4e40.85470.71340.8635
C14C4e40.85150.77130.8327
C15C4e40.95740.78660.8354
C16C4e40.06140.74450.8645
C17C4e40.06820.68610.8960
C18C4e40.51240.42150.0826
C19C4e40.23420.53890.2252
C20C4e40.34650.56520.3487
C2C4e40.56880.36010.2999
C21C4e40.26640.59700.3590
C22C4e40.36680.62410.4695
C23C4e40.54550.61900.5702
C24C4e40.62740.58640.5622
C25C4e40.52680.56040.4506
C26C4e40.71020.52640.1953
C27C4e40.66860.42050.1283
C28C4e40.38130.31680.9857
C29C4e40.92330.47990.2340
C30C4e40.51080.57370.1704
C3C4e40.72030.30380.3238
C4C4e40.81320.35700.3799
C5C4e40.97050.36610.4313
C6C4e40.94030.26020.3717
C7C4e40.75050.45300.4137
C8C4e40.19310.31910.4783
C9C4e40.69580.19720.2726
H31H4e40.17860.37780.9696
H32H4e40.47690.37500.2757
H33H4e40.83260.45030.5003
H34H4e40.64140.46920.3690
H35H4e40.79730.47890.4031
H36H4e40.24810.35730.5187
H37H4e40.16960.31500.4135
H38H4e40.27010.28730.5378
H39H4e40.63220.19330.2815
H40H4e40.78100.16540.3177
H41H4e40.61530.19450.1863
H42H4e40.78310.70350.8621
H43H4e40.77650.80000.8099
H44H4e40.95720.82580.8173
H45H4e40.13020.75460.8635
H46H4e40.14200.65770.9168
H47H4e40.14450.60000.2911
H48H4e40.31260.64610.4756
H49H4e40.61260.63750.6446
H50H4e40.74900.58210.6314
H51H4e40.58150.53930.4442
H52H4e40.47920.29280.0574
H53H4e40.38440.32080.9351
H54H4e40.27370.29750.9386
H55H4e40.93350.51950.2193
H56H4e40.92220.45060.1947
H57H4e40.02140.47230.3217
H58H4e40.40770.56400.1395
H59H4e40.48670.60770.1257
H60H4e40.60550.58350.2571
N61N4e40.31740.45570.0532
N62N4e40.56930.30290.2735
N63N4e40.72220.39650.3688
N64N4e40.78560.25590.3219
N65N4e40.02770.31560.4249
N66N4e40.39140.37620.0250
N67N4e40.75820.47550.1821
N68N4e40.56040.52180.1535
O69O4e40.72260.37780.1233
O70O4e40.05640.41460.4798
O71O4e40.00060.21830.3713
O72O4e40.79430.57260.2409
O73O4e40.09520.57390.9781
O74O4e40.14020.40730.0870
O75O4e40.31110.51910.2121
O76O4e40.92810.46180.8579
Zn77Zn4e40.15470.48860.0411

The multiplicity and the Wyckoff letter say how many copies of the site the group makes in one cell and on which kind of symmetry element the site sits; the 308 atoms drawn above are these sites multiplied by all 4 operations. Press Wyckoff under Colour to see the sites, and tick a symmetry element on the left to see which atoms lie on it.

How to read the label

A30B30C8D8E_mP308_14_30e_30e_8e_8e_e-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol mP308, then the space-group number 14, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; C: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; H: 4e; N: 4e; N: 4e; N: 4e; N: 4e; N: 4e; N: 4e; N: 4e; N: 4e; O: 4e; O: 4e; O: 4e; O: 4e; O: 4e; O: 4e; O: 4e; O: 4e; Zn: 4e). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Note: Zinc Benzoato Caffeine.

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A30B30C8D8E_mP308_14_30e_30e_8e_8e_e-001 (M. J. Mehl et al., Comput. Mater. Sci. 136, S1 (2017); D. Hicks et al., ibid. 161, S1 (2019) and 199, 110450 (2021); S. Eckert et al., ibid. 240, 112988 (2024)). Symmetry elements, Wyckoff assignment and the diagram are computed on this page from the group operations.

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