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Sr-substitution in the crystal structure of bredigite has been studied in detail. Samples of a hypothetical solid-solution series with nominal composition Ca 7-x Sr x Mg[SiO 4 ] 4  (x = 0, 2, …,7) have been prepared from sinter reactions in the temperature range between 1275 and 1325 °C and characterized using powder and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Synthesis runs between x = 1 and x = 4 resulted in compounds with increasing Sr contents, for which single-crystal diffraction studies revealed the following Sr/(Sr + Ca) atomic ratios: 0.133,0.268, 0.409 and 0.559. They are isostructural to the pure calcium end-member (x = 0) and adopt the orthorhombic space group  Pnnm . Evolution of the unit-cell parameters and cell volumes of the solid-solution series are defined by linear or nearly linear trends when plotted against the Sr/(Sr + Ca) atomic ratio. Replacement of calcium with strontium atoms on the different sites shows clear preferences for specific positions. For the experiment with x = 5, formation of bredigite-related single-crystals with Sr/(Sr + Ca) = 0.675 was observed. These samples, however, exhibited a halved  c  lattice parameter when compared with the corresponding value in the  Pnnm  structure, pointing to a compositionally induced phase transition somewhere in region between Sr/(Sr + Ca) = 0.559 and 0.675. The crystal structure of this new phase with composition Ca 2.32 Sr 4.82 Mg 0.86 [SiO 4 ] 4  was successfully determined in space group  Pbam . Basic crystallographic data are as follows:  a  = 18.869(2) Å,  b  = 6.9445(8) Å,  c  = 5.5426(6) Å, V = 726.28(14) Å 3 , Z = 2. Structure determination was accomplished using charge flipping. Subsequent least-squares refinements resulted in a residual of R(|F|) = 2.70% for 822 independent reflections and 87 parameters. The  Pbam - and the  Pnnm -structures are in a group-subgroup relationship and topologically related. Both are based on so-called pinwheel-like MSi 6 O 24  clusters consisting of a central magnesium-dominated [MO 6 ]-octahedron as well as six attached [SiO 4 ]-tetrahedra. The clusters are linked into chain-like elements running along [001]. Linkage between the chains is provided by mixed Sr/Ca positions with 6 to 10 oxygen ligands. Differences between the two phases result from changes in Sr-Ca site occupancies in combination with displacements of the atoms and tilts of the tetrahedra. The distortion pattern has been studied using group-theoretical methods including mode analysis. Notably, for the samples with x = 6 and x = 7—the latter corresponding to the hypothetical pure strontium end-member composition—no bredigite-type phases could be identified, indicating that there is an upper limit for the Sr-uptake.

On the incorporation of strontium into the crystal structure of bredigite: structural effects and phase transition