Аннотация:Mercury antimonide iodide, Hg5Sb2I6, previously and erroneously reported as Hg3Sb2I4 was synthesized using standard ampoule technique. A gas-phase transport reaction was applied for preparation of single crystals. Hg5Sb2I6 crystallizes in the space group Pc2(1)n (No. 33) with unit cell dimensions: a = 8.108(1), b = 10.702(1), c = 21.295(l) angstrom. Crystal structure solved using single crystal X-ray data is built of [HgSbI3] tetrahedra and [HgSbI2] triangles. All antimony atoms are joined into Sb24- dumbbells. The structure is compared with ones containing similar Sb24- dumbbells.