Abstract
The title compound, barium palladium oxide, Ba68Pd32Ox, x 13.5 is a medium-sized cubic suboxide. Two of the four crystallographically independent Ba atoms form a network of face-sharing octahedra with O atoms occupying the central position of these octahedra, giving a network resembling the pyrochlore structure. Two of three O-atom positions are fully occupied and the third partially occupied. The remainder of the Ba atoms and the Pd atoms are distributed in another network residing in the channels of the network of face-sharing O–Ba6 octahedra.
