“…The experiments were performed on single crystals of M 2 Fe 12 P 7 compounds that were harvested as byproducts in our efforts to synthesize MFePO and MFe 2 P 2 (M = rare earth, actinide) compounds by growth in a molten Sn flux [15]. The M 2 Fe 12 P 7 compounds belong to a large class of compounds with the chemical formula M 2 T 12 Pn 7 , which have the hexagonal, noncentrosymmetric, Zr 2 Fe 12 P 7 -type crystal structure (space group P-6) [16] and can be formed with many metal M, transition metal T, and pnictogen Pn elements (M = Li, Na, Ca, Mg, Ti-Hf, Nb, Sc, Y, La-Lu; T = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Ru; Pn = P, As) [17][18][19]. The M 2 T 12 Pn 7 compounds comprise a subclass of a larger class of pnictogen-based compounds with noncentrosymmetric structures and the chemical formula M n(n-1) T (n+1)(n+2) Pn n(n+1)+1 [17][18]20].…”