The new isostructural compounds Ag
2.6CsMo
9Se
11 (
1)
and Ag
4.1ClMo
9Se
11 (
2) were prepared by solid-state reactionin evacuated sealed silica tubes at 1200
C
and 860
C, respectively. By topotactic reduction-oxidation reactionof Ag
4.1ClMo
9Se
11 with I
2, we also obtained the metastable compound h-Mo
9Se
11 (
3). The three compounds crystallizein the hexagonal space group
P6
3/
m,
Z = 2, (
1)
a = 10.0472(2) Å,
c = 11.9548(2), (
2)
a = 10.0321(2) Å,
c =11.8734(2) Å,
and (
3)
a = 9.4204(2) Å,
c = 12.1226(2) Å. Their crystal structures were determined from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data
and consist of interconnected Mo
9Se
11 units forming an original
and unprecedentedthree-dimensional framework in which large tunnels are occupied r
andomly by a part of the Ag
+ and the Cl
- ionsin
2 and the Cs
+ ions in
1, the remaining Ag
+ in
1 being localized in mirror planes around the 3-fold axis. First-principle calculations allow the underst
anding of the variation of the atomic distances. Electrical resistivitymeasurements carried out on single crystals of Ag
2.6CsMo
9Se
11 and Ag
4.1ClMo
9Se
11 in which the number of electronsper Mo
9 cluster is different indicate that the former is semiconducting whereas the latter is semimetallic.