Homomeric Chains of intermolecular bonds scaffold octahedral germanium perovskites
Morteza Najarian, Amin; Dinic, Filip; Chen, Hao; Sabatini, Randy; Zheng, Chao; Lough, Alan J.; Maris, Thierry; Saidaminov, Makhsud I.; Garcia de Arquer, F. Pelayo; Voznyy, Oleksandr; Hoogland, Sjoerd; Sargent, Edward H.; Nature 620 (2023) 328–335; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06209-y

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_publ_section_title
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 Homomeric Chains of intermolecular bonds scaffold octahedral germanium
 perovskites
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_journal_name_full               Nature
_journal_page_first              328
_journal_page_last               335
_journal_paper_doi               10.1038/s41586-023-06209-y
_journal_volume                  620
_journal_year                    2023
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'bis(butylammonium) triiodo-germanium(ii) iodide'
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Olex2 1.5
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SAINT (2020) V8.40B; Integration Software for Single Crystal Data.
Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, WI 53719-1173.
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APEX 3 (2019) Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, WI 53719-1173.
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SAINT (2020) V8.40B; Integration Software for Single Crystal Data.
Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, WI 53719-1173.
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SADABS-2016/2 (Bruker,2016/2) was used for absorption correction.
wR2(int) was 0.1680 before and 0.0934 after correction.
The Ratio of minimum to maximum transmission is 0.1356.
The \l/2 correction factor is Not present.
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 Refined as an inversion twin.
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'w=1/[\s^2^(Fo^2^)+(0.0608P)^2^+23.3221P] where P=(Fo^2^+2Fc^2^)/3'
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