“…10 Trivalent metals, such as Bi(III), have also been introduced to this research area, but they are inclined to preferentially form polynuclear halogen anions of corner-, edge-, or face-sharing octahedra, [11][12][13][14] even if several compounds with 1-D structure (BiI 4 , BiI 5 ) have also been reported. [15][16][17] Focussing on the chemistry of bismuth iodide, BiI 6 monomeric structures are surprisingly scarce, 14,[18][19] comparing to the metal(III)-bromide system (metal 5 Rh, Bi, Sb), [20][21][22][23][24] and they can incorporate other anions, free iodide (I 2 ), 18 or triiodide (I 3…”