In oxo/-vanadates, -chromates, -wolframates, -germanates, for example, Cd 2+ appears as cationic part of the crystal structures and shows mainly octahedral coordination by oxygen. It is amazing that CdMoO 4 (Scheelite type) and α-CdUO 4 are containing CdO 8 -polyhedra. The first mentioned compound shows distorted two times capped trigonal CdO 6+2 prisms, in α-CdUO 4 the coordination number eight is realized by CdO 8 -cubes. The only one example of sevenfold coordinated Cd 2+ is CdV 3 O 7 . The compound CaCd 2 Bi 2 Nb 4 O 15 shows in the anionic part of the crystal structure Nb 4 O 15 blocks (allocated to the Aurivillius phases). The NbO 6 -octahedra network corresponds a yet unknown higher Ruddlesden-Popper phase too. The so called oxocadmates are formed by the large alkaline metals and barium. For example