Sin
gle crystals of a new compound, Ba
6Ga
2Co
11O
26, have been
grown by a self-flux method. Thestructure determined by sin
gle-crystal X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy (TEM)techniques shows a complex inter
growth between an hexa
gonal perovskite block, correspondin
g to the5H term, and a complex block [Ba(Ga,Co)
8O
11]. It crystallizes in the
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m1 tri
gonal space
group with thefollowin
g unit-cell parameters:
a = 5.652(2) &Arin
g;,
b = 5.652(2) &Arin
g;,
c = 18.828(8) &Arin
g;, and
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g.
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gy with two structural types, namely rocksalt and nolanite, allows a description of thenature of the [Ba(Ga,Co)
8O
11] block: one central [111]
RS Co
4O
8 slab, related to a CdI
2-type slice, issandwiched between two Ba(Ga,Co)
2O
3 nolanite-type slabs containin
g (Co/Ga)O
4 tetrahedra and(Co/Ga)O
6 octahedra. This compound can be thus viewed as the
n = 5 member of the lar
ge series[Ba(Ga,Co)
8O
11][BaCoO
3]
n, openin
g the route toward the discovery of new cobaltites.