The Characterization Of Organic Charge Transfer Superconductors By Microreflectance Spectroscopy

Author(s):  
S. L. Hill ◽  
K. Krishnan ◽  
J. R. Ferraro

Certain classes of organic charge-transfer salts demonstrate superconducting behavior at liquid helium temperatures. Single crystal x-ray diffraction and infrared microreflectance analysis have been performed on several conducting systems to associate the nature of the crystalline structure with the electrical conductivity. The infrared spectrum for a single crystal salt exhibits absorptions which correlate with superconducting behavior.Discussion Williams and coworkers have performed x-ray Crystallography experiments to demonstrate the presence of an anion cavity between radical cation stacks- of bis(ethylenedithio)- tetrathiafulvalene (ET). The sulfur…sulfur interstack distance in a beta or kappa phase salt assumes a value less than the Vanderwaals distance and exhibit a superconducting (two dimensional) metal behavior (verified by Fermi surface calculations) at 1-20K. The structures of alpha and beta phase ET2I3 suggest the potential for several potential intermolecular interaction modes. It may be observed that the beta phase permits both interstack as well as H … X anionic interactions, whereas these interactions are less likely to occur in the alpha phase.

Cerâmica ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 51 (318) ◽  
pp. 168-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Kelly ◽  
P. A. Suzuki ◽  
S. Ribeiro ◽  
S. Kycia

Silicon carbide (SiC) was sintered using two different additives: AlN-Y2O3 or AlN-CRE2O3. CRE2O3 is a mixed oxide formed by Y2O3 and rare-earth oxides. The crystalline structures of the phases were analyzed by high-resolution X-ray diffraction using synchrotron light source. The results of the Rietveld refinement of the mixed oxide show a solid solution formation. In both silicon carbide samples prepared using AlN-Y2O3 or AlN-CRE2O3 3C (beta-phase) and 6H (alpha-phase) polytypes were found. The structural and microstructural results for both samples were similar. This is an indication of the viability of the use of CRE2O3 in substitution for Y2O3 as additive to obtain dense materials.


2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 154-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin W.Y. Wong ◽  
Daniel B. Leznoff

The reduction of magnesium phthalocyanine (MgPc) with 2.2 equivalents of potassium graphite in 1,2-dimethoxyethane (DME) gives [K2(DME)4]PcMg(OH)(1) in 67% yield. Compound 1 was structurally characterized using single crystal X-ray crystallography and was found to be a monomeric, heterometallic complex consisting of a μ3-OH ligand that bridges a [MgIIPc3-]- anion to two potassium cations solvated by four DME molecules. An absorption spectrum of 1 confirms the Pc ligand is singly reduced and has a 3–charge. The solid-state structure of 1 does not indicate breaking of the aromaticity of the Pc ligand. Compound 1 is only the second Pc3- complex and the first reduced MgPc to be isolated and structurally characterized.


Author(s):  
Filip Topić ◽  
Joseph M. Marrett ◽  
Tristan H. Borchers ◽  
Hatem M. Titi ◽  
Christopher J. Barrett ◽  
...  

Crystals ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Younes Hanifehpour ◽  
Babak Mirtamizdoust ◽  
Jaber Dadashi ◽  
Ruiyao Wang ◽  
Mahboube Rezaei ◽  
...  

A novel Bi (III) coordination compound, [Bi(HQ)(Cl)4]n ((Q = pyridine-4-carbaldehyde thiosemicarbazone), was prepared in this research using a sonochemical technique. SEM, infrared spectroscopy (IR), XRD, and single-crystal X-ray analysis were utilized to analyze the Bi(III) coordination compound. The structure determined using single-crystal X-ray crystallography indicates that the coordination compound is a 1D polymer in solid state and that the coordination number of bismuth (III) ions is six, (BiSCl5), with one S donor from the organic ligand and five Cl donors from anions. It is equipped with a hemidirectional coordination sphere. It is interesting that the ligand has been protonated in the course of the reaction with a Cl- ion balancing the charge. This compound’s supramolecular properties are directed and regulated by weak directional intermolecular interactions. Through π–π stacking interactions, the chains interact with one another, forming a 3D framework. Thermolysis of the compound at 170 °C with oleic acid resulted in the formation of pure phase nanosized Bi (III) oxide. SEM technique was used to examine the morphology and size of the bismuth (III) oxide product produced.


2002 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 621-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Fraenk ◽  
Heinrich Nöth ◽  
Thomas M. Klapötke ◽  
Max Suter

AbstractTetraphenylphosphonium tetraazidoborate, [P(C6H5)4][B(N3)4], was obtained from B(N3)3 - in situ prepared from BH3 · O(C2H5)2 and HN3 - and [P(C6H5)4][N3]. Recrystallization from an acetonitrile / hexane mixture yielded colorless crystals in 60% yield. The molecular structurewas determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction and the [B(N3)4]- anionwas shown to possess S4 symmetry.


2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-387
Author(s):  
Michael Zoller ◽  
Jörn Bruns ◽  
Gunter Heymann ◽  
Klaus Wurst ◽  
Hubert Huppertz

AbstractA potassium tetranitratopalladate(II) with the composition K2[Pd(NO3)4] · 2HNO3 was synthesized by a simple solvothermal process in a glass ampoule. The new compound crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P21/c (no. 14) with the lattice parameters a = 1017.15(4), b = 892.94(3), c = 880.55(3) Å, and β = 98.13(1)° (Z = 2). The crystal structure of K2[Pd(NO3)4] · 2HNO3 reveals isolated complex [Pd(NO3)4]2− anions, which are surrounded by eight potassium cations and four HNO3 molecules. The complex anions and the cations are associated in layers which are separated by HNO3 molecules. K2[Pd(NO3)4] · 2HNO3 can thus be regarded as a HNO3 intercalation variant of β-K2[Pd(NO3)4]. The characterization is based on single-crystal X-ray and powder X-ray diffraction.


1980 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 313 ◽  
Author(s):  
PR Jefferies ◽  
BW Skelton ◽  
B Walter ◽  
AH White

Following the suggestion made earlier, on the basis of solution spectroscopy, that a number of eriostyl/nitrobenzoate compounds form charge-transfer self-complexes, a number of these have been investigated structurally by single-crystal X-ray diffraction methods in order to ascertain the presence or otherwise of such interactions in the solid state. The substances thus studied were eriostyl 3,5-dinitrobenzoate (1), eriostyl p-nitrobenzoate (2), tetrahydroeriostyl 3,5-dinitrobenzoate (3), and eriostemyl 3,5-dinitrobenzoate (4);* structure determinations in all cases, although displaying the presence of strong charge-transfer interactions from the two moieties of each molecule, show that the interactions in the solid state are intermolecular in nature.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 1934578X1984933
Author(s):  
Joshua L. Mieher ◽  
Norbert Schormann ◽  
Manisha Patel ◽  
Hui Wu ◽  
Champion Deivanayagam

Dental caries characterized by acid damage of tooth enamel is a persistent disease that begins with the formation of biofilms on the tooth surface. The secreted glucosyltransferases enable Streptococcus mutans to synthesize extracellular glucan polymers using ingested starch within the oral cavity, which eventually results in the production of acid, a contributing factor to cariogenesis. In this paper, we report the cloning, expression, purification, crystallization, and preliminary X-ray diffraction characterization of glucosyltransferase B.


2019 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 300-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Sethe Burgie ◽  
Jonathan A. Clinger ◽  
Mitchell D. Miller ◽  
Aaron S. Brewster ◽  
Pierre Aller ◽  
...  

A major barrier to defining the structural intermediates that arise during the reversible photointerconversion of phytochromes between their biologically inactive and active states has been the lack of crystals that faithfully undergo this transition within the crystal lattice. Here, we describe a crystalline form of the cyclic GMP phosphodiesterases/adenylyl cyclase/FhlA (GAF) domain from the cyanobacteriochrome PixJ inThermosynechococcus elongatusassembled with phycocyanobilin that permits reversible photoconversion between the blue light-absorbing Pb and green light-absorbing Pg states, as well as thermal reversion of Pg back to Pb. The X-ray crystallographic structure of Pb matches previous models, including autocatalytic conversion of phycocyanobilin to phycoviolobilin upon binding and its tandem thioether linkage to the GAF domain. Cryocrystallography at 150 K, which compared diffraction data from a single crystal as Pb or after irradiation with blue light, detected photoconversion product(s) based on Fobs− Fobsdifference maps that were consistent with rotation of the bonds connecting pyrrole rings C and D. Further spectroscopic analyses showed that phycoviolobilin is susceptible to X-ray radiation damage, especially as Pg, during single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses, which could complicate fine mapping of the various intermediate states. Fortunately, we found that PixJ crystals are amenable to serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) analyses using X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs). As proof of principle, we solved by room temperature SFX the GAF domain structure of Pb to 1.55-Å resolution, which was strongly congruent with synchrotron-based models. Analysis of these crystals by SFX should now enable structural characterization of the early events that drive phytochrome photoconversion.


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