Fluorite - Calcium fluoride - CaF2
CaF2 (Fluorite) has an arrangement where the fluorides are 4 coordinate and the Calcium is eight coordinate. If the cations have CN=4 and the anions have CN=8 this is described as an antifluorite structure, examples include Li2O and Na2O. Generally, if the radius ratio r-/r+ exceeds ~1.37 then a rutile rather than fluorite structure is favoured.


Complexes that adapt this structure include..
CdF2, HgF2, SrF2, PbF2, BaF2 and HfO2.
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