On the MoO2 Structure Type.

Abstract

The crystal structure of vanadium dioxide may be considered as representing the idealized form of the MoO2 structure type, which also comprises dioxides of molybdenum, wolfram, technetium, and rhenium. The sturucture is of a deformed rutile type, the metal atoms occurring in doublets. The bond distances are correlated to the number of valence electrons of the metal atoms.