Thermal expansion of deuterated monoclinic natrojarosite; a combined neutron–synchrotron powder diffraction study

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 340-348
Author(s):  
Helen E. A. Brand ◽  
Nicola V. Y. Scarlett ◽  
Kevin S. Knight

A combination of time-of-flight neutron diffraction and synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction has been used to investigate the thermal expansion of a synthetic deuterated natrojarosite from 80 to 440 K under ambient-pressure conditions. The variation in unit-cell volume for monoclinic jarosite over this temperature range can be well represented by an Einstein expression of the form V = 515.308 (5) + 8.5 (4)/{exp[319 (4)/T] − 1}. Analysis of the behaviour of the polyhedra and hydrogen-bond network suggests that the strength of the hydrogen bonds connected to the sulfate tetrahedra is instrumental in determining the expansion of the structure, which manifests primarily in the c-axis direction.

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Dominic Fortes ◽  
Ian G. Wood

A new hydrate of magnesium chromate is synthesized by quenching aqueous solutions of MgCrO4 in liquid nitrogen. MgCrO4·11H2O is isostructural with the rare mineral meridianiite (MgSO4·11H2O) being triclinic, $P{\bar 1}$, Z = 2, with unit-cell parameters a = 6.811 33(8) Å, b = 6.958 39(9) Å, c = 17.3850(2) Å, α = 87.920(1)°, β = 89.480(1)°, γ = 62.772(1)°, and V = 732.17(1) Å3 at −15 °C. The difference in unit-cell parameters between SO4- and CrO4-bearing species is only partially accounted for by the difference in S–O and Cr–O bond lengths; the remainder of the difference (over 90% in the cell volume) is attributed to weakening of the interpolyhedral hydrogen-bond network.


2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (a1) ◽  
pp. C901-C901
Author(s):  
Solveig Madsen ◽  
Jacob Overgaard ◽  
Bo Iversen

Intramolecular electron transfer (ET) in mixed valence (MV) oxo-centered [FeiiFeiii2O(carboxylate)6(ligand)3]·solvent complexes is highly dependent on temperature, on the nature of the ligands, and on the presence of crystal solvent molecules [1]. Whereas the effects of temperature, crystal solvent, and ligand variation on the details of the ET have been explored thoroughly, the effect of pressure is less well described [2]. The effect of pressure on the ET in MV Fe3O(cyanoacetate)6(water)3has been investigated with single crystal X-ray diffraction and Mössbauer spectroscopy. Previous multi-temperature studies have shown that at room temperature the ET between the three Fe sites is fast and the observed structure of the Fe3core is a perfectly equilateral triangle [3]. Cooling the complex below 130 K induces a phase transition as the ET slows down. Below 120 K the Fe3core is distorted due to the localization of the itinerant electron on one of the three Fe sites in the triangle (the complex is then in the valence trapped state). The valence trapping is complete within a temperature interval of just 10 K. The abruptness of the transition has been attributed to the extended hydrogen bond network involving water ligands and cyano groups, promoting intermolecular cooperative effects. The high-pressure X-ray diffraction data show that there is a 900flip of half the cyano groups at 3.5 GPa, which dramatically changes the hydrogen bond network. At a slightly higher pressure, a phase transition is found to occur. The five single crystals investigated all broke into minor fragments at the transition; however triclinic unit cells, similar to the low temperature unit cell, could be indexed from selected spots. Additional evidence that the complex is valence trapped comes from high pressure Mössbauer spectra measured above the phase transition (4 GPa). The relationship between valence trapping and the structural changes will in this work be highlighted using void space and Hirshfeld surface analysis.


2005 ◽  
Vol 109 (27) ◽  
pp. 5995-6002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars-Åke Näslund ◽  
David C. Edwards ◽  
Philippe Wernet ◽  
Uwe Bergmann ◽  
Hirohito Ogasawara ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Austin M. Wheatley ◽  
James A. Kaduk ◽  
Amy M. Gindhart ◽  
Thomas N. Blanton

The crystal structure of methylprednisolone acetate form II, C24H32O6, has been solved and refined using synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction data, and optimized using density functional techniques. Methylprednisolone acetate crystallizes in space group P212121 (#19) with a = 8.17608(2), b = 9.67944(3), c = 26.35176(6) Å, V = 2085.474(6) Å3, and Z = 4. Both hydroxyl groups act as hydrogen bond donors, resulting in a two-dimensional hydrogen bond network in the ab plane. C–H⋯O hydrogen bonds also contribute to the crystal energy. The powder pattern is included in the Powder Diffraction File™ as entry 00-065-1412.


2020 ◽  
Vol 295 (17) ◽  
pp. 5818-5833
Author(s):  
Atsuhiro Shimada ◽  
Yuki Etoh ◽  
Rika Kitoh-Fujisawa ◽  
Ai Sasaki ◽  
Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh ◽  
...  

Cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) reduces O2 to water, coupled with a proton-pumping process. The structure of the O2-reduction site of CcO contains two reducing equivalents, Fea32+ and CuB1+, and suggests that a peroxide-bound state (Fea33+–O−–O−–CuB2+) rather than an O2-bound state (Fea32+–O2) is the initial catalytic intermediate. Unexpectedly, however, resonance Raman spectroscopy results have shown that the initial intermediate is Fea32+–O2, whereas Fea33+–O−–O−–CuB2+ is undetectable. Based on X-ray structures of static noncatalytic CcO forms and mutation analyses for bovine CcO, a proton-pumping mechanism has been proposed. It involves a proton-conducting pathway (the H-pathway) comprising a tandem hydrogen-bond network and a water channel located between the N- and P-side surfaces. However, a system for unidirectional proton-transport has not been experimentally identified. Here, an essentially identical X-ray structure for the two catalytic intermediates (P and F) of bovine CcO was determined at 1.8 Å resolution. A 1.70 Å Fe–O distance of the ferryl center could best be described as Fea34+ = O2−, not as Fea34+–OH−. The distance suggests an ∼800-cm−1 Raman stretching band. We found an interstitial water molecule that could trigger a rapid proton-coupled electron transfer from tyrosine-OH to the slowly forming Fea33+–O−–O−–CuB2+ state, preventing its detection, consistent with the unexpected Raman results. The H-pathway structures of both intermediates indicated that during proton-pumping from the hydrogen-bond network to the P-side, a transmembrane helix closes the water channel connecting the N-side with the hydrogen-bond network, facilitating unidirectional proton-pumping during the P-to-F transition.


Author(s):  
M.A. Salvadó ◽  
P. Pertierra ◽  
S. García-Granda ◽  
L. M. Barcina ◽  
R. Llavona ◽  
...  

AbstractThe hydrogen atom positions of the layered phosphates Zr(PO


2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (41) ◽  
pp. 28470-28475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Lehmkühler ◽  
Yury Forov ◽  
Mirko Elbers ◽  
Ingo Steinke ◽  
Christoph J. Sahle ◽  
...  

We present an X-ray Compton scattering study on aqueous trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) and guanidine hydrochloride solutions (GdnHCl) as a function of temperature.


2007 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
El-Eulmi Bendeif ◽  
Slimane Dahaoui ◽  
Nourredine Benali-Cherif ◽  
Claude Lecomte

The crystal structures of three similar guaninium salts, guaninium monohydrogenphosphite monohydrate, C5H6N5O+·H2O3P−·H2O, guaninium monohydrogenphosphite dihydrate, C5H6N5O+·H2O3P−·2H2O, and guaninium dihydrogenmonophosphate monohydrate, C5H6N5O+·H2O4P−·H2O, are described and compared. The crystal structures have been determined from accurate single-crystal X-ray data sets collected at 100 (2) K. The two phosphite salts are monoclinic, space group P21/c, with different packing and the monophosphate salt is also monoclinic, space group P21/n. An investigation of the hydrogen-bond network in these guaninium salts reveals the existence of two ketoamine tautomers, the N9H form and an N7H form.


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