Quaternary Silicide CarbidesThe title compounds were prepared by arc-melting cold-pressed pellets of the elemental components. They crystallize with a tetragonal structure already reported for CeCr:Si2C. It was refined from single-crystal X-ray data of PrCriSiiC: PMmmm, a -402.2( 1) pm, c = 535.2(1) pm, Z = 1, R = 0.012 for 252 structure factors and 10 variable parameters. Magnetic susceptibility measurements with a SQUID magnetometer indicate Pauli paramagnetism for YCr^Si^C, while CeCnSi^C shows mixed valent behavior. The carbon atoms in the structure of these compounds are isolated from each other. The silicon atoms form pairs with a Si-Si distance of 245.3 pm, somewhat greater than the single-bond distance of 235.2 pm in elemental silicon. Together with the chromium atoms, the silicon pairs and carbon atoms form a three-dimensionally infinite polyanion, which has some similarity with the polyanions found in several related tetragonal structures, e. g., the structures of ThCriSii and LuNi^I^C.