Electron-Deficient Ternary and Quaternary Pnictides Rb<sub>4</sub>Zn<sub>7</sub>As<sub>7</sub>, Rb<sub>4</sub>Mn<sub>3.5</sub>Zn<sub>3.5</sub>Sb<sub>7</sub>, Rb<sub>7</sub>Mn<sub>12</sub>Sb<sub>12</sub>, and Rb<sub>7</sub>Mn<sub>4</sub>Cd<sub>8</sub>Sb<sub>12</sub> with Corrugated Anionic Layers
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Abstract
The ternary pnictides Rb4Zn7As7 and Rb7Mn12Sb12 and their quaternary derivatives Rb4Mn3.5Zn3.5Sb7 and Rb7Mn4Cd8Sb12 have been prepared by reactions of the elements at 600 °C. They crystallize in two new structure types: orthorhombic Rb4Zn7As7-type (space group Cmcm, Z = 4; a = 4.1883(4) Å, b = 24.844(2) Å, c = 17.6056(17) Å for Rb4Zn7As7; a = 4.3911(8) Å, b = 26.546(5) Å, c = 18.743(4) Å for Rb4Mn3.5Zn3.5Sb7) and monoclinic Rb7Mn12Sb12-type (space group C2/m, Z = 2; a = 26.544(12) Å, b = 4.448(2) Å, c = 16.676(8) Å, β = 103.183(8)° for Rb7Mn12Sb12; a = 27.009(4) Å, b = 4.5752(7) Å, c = 16.727(3) Å, β = 103.221(2)° for Rb7Mn4Cd8Sb12). These related structures contain corrugated anionic layers built up by connecting ribbons of edge-sharing tetrahedra in a zigzag-like manner with chains of Mn-centered square pyramids located at the hinges. Homoatomic pnicogen-pnicogen bonding occurs in the form of Pn2 pairs. The compounds are formally deficient by one electron per formula unit, as confirmed by band structure calculations which reveal the location of the Fermi level just below a small gap in Rb4Zn7As7 or a pseudogap in Rb7Mn12Sb12.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.019 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.029 | 0.033 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.024 | 0.011 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.012 | 0.021 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.018 |
| Open science | 0.023 | 0.017 |
| Research integrity | 0.019 | 0.029 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.016 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".