The ternary compound Ce8Pd24Sb is very close in composition to the intermediate valent binary CePd3. A single crystal study yielded a cubic cell with a = 8.461 (1)Å, Pm3̄m symmetry with wR2 = 0.0412 based on 1453 reflections (222 unique) and 16 parameters. This new structure type is composed of distorted perovskite and Cu3Au subcells arranged with the perovskite-like units centred on the corners of the cube. Fitting the magnetic susceptibility data above 100K to a Curie-Weiss expression yielded a Weiss constant of -15(3)K (antiferromagnetic) and an effective high temperature moment per cerium of 2.45(4)/μв indicating trivalent cerium. No ordering was observerd above 3K.
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Gordon et al. (1996) studied this question.