The role of hydrogen bonds in order-disorder transition of a new incommensurate low temperature phase β-[Zn-(C7H4NO4)2]·3H2O

2018 ◽  
Vol 233 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masoumeh Tabatabaee ◽  
Morgane Poupon ◽  
Václav Eigner ◽  
Přemysl Vaněk ◽  
Michal Dušek

AbstractThe room temperature structure withP21/csymmetry of the zinc(II) complex of pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid was published by Okabe and Oya (N. Okabe, N. Oya, Copper(II) and zinc(II) complexes of pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid.Acta Crystallogr. C.2000,56, 305). Here we report crystal structure of the low temperature phaseβ-[Zn(pydcH)2]·3H2O, pydc=C7H3NO4, resulting from the phase transition around 200K. The diffraction pattern of the low temperature phase revealed satellite reflections, which could be indexed with q-vector 0.4051(10)b* corresponding to (3+1)Dincommensurately modulated structure. The modulated structure was solved in the superspace groupX21/c(0b0)s0, whereXstands for a non-standard centring vector (½, 0, 0, ½), and compared with the room temperature phase. It is shown that hydrogen bonds are the main driving force of modulation.

1982 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Moret ◽  
R. Comes ◽  
G. Furdin ◽  
H. Fuzellier ◽  
F. Rousseaux

ABSTRACTIn α-C5n-HNO3 the condensation of the room-temperature liquid-like diffuse ring associated with the disorder-order transition around 250 K is studied and the low-temperature. superstructure is examined.It is found that β-C8n-HNO3 exhibits an in-plane incommensurate order at room temperature.Two types of graphite-Br2 are found. Low-temperature phase transitions in C8Br are observed at T1 ≍ 277 K and T2 ≍ 297 K. The room-temperature structure of C14Br is reexamined. Special attention is given to diffuse scattering and incommensurability.


2010 ◽  
Vol 65 (7) ◽  
pp. 907-916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis Tiritiris ◽  
Falk Lissner ◽  
Thomas Schleid ◽  
Willi Kantlehner

Dicationic N,N´,N´,N´´,N´´-pentasubstituted guanidinium dichlorides 4a, b are obtained from the chloroformamidinium salt 2 and diamines 3a, b. N-[2-(Dimethylammonio)ethyl]-N´,N´,N´´,N´´-tetramethylguanidinium chloride tetraphenylborate (5a) and N-[3-(dimethylammonio)propyl]-N´,N´,N´´,N´´-tetramethylguanidinium chloride tetraphenylborate (5b) were synthesized from 4a, b by anion metathesis with one equivalent of sodium tetraphenylborate. The thermal properties of the salts 5a, b were studied by means of DSC methods, and their crystal structures were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. For 5a a solid-solid phase transition is observed at −156 ◦C to a low-temperature structure. The room-temperature modification (α-5a) crystallizes in the centrosymmetric orthorhombic space group Pbca (a = 13.1844(4), b = 13.8007(4), c = 34.7537(11) A° ).The guanidinium ions are interconnected via chloride ions through bridging N-H· · ·Cl hydrogen bonds, providing isolated units. The tetraphenylborate ions show some dynamic disordering in the crystal structure. The low-temperature modification (β -5a) also crystallizes orthorhombically, but in the non-centrosymmetric space group Pna21 (a = 13.1099(4), b = 69.1810(11), c = 13.5847(5) A° ) and consists of four crystallographically independent cations and anions in the unit cell. Compared with the room-temperature structure, a similar N-H· · ·Cl hydrogen bond pattern is observed in the β -phase, but the tetraphenylborate ions are now completely ordered. 5b crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P21/c (a = 10.8010(3), b = 14.1502(5), c = 20.9867(9) A° , β = 94.322(1)◦). In the crystal structure the guanidinium ions are linked via chloride ions through N-H· · ·Cl hydrogen bonds, but in contrast to 5a two infinite strands are formed along the a axis with the tetraphenylborate ions interspersed between them for charge compensation.


2001 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Guelylah ◽  
G. Madariaga ◽  
V. Petricek ◽  
T. Breczewski ◽  
M. I. Aroyo ◽  
...  

The potassium manganese tetrafluoroberyllate langbeinite compound has been studied in the temperature range 100–300 K. Using DSC measurements, a phase transition has been detected at 213 K. The space group of the low-temperature phase was determined to be P1121 using X-ray diffraction experiments and optical observations of the domain structure. The b axis is doubled with respect to the prototypic P213 cubic phase. Lattice parameters were determined by powder diffraction data [a = 10.0690 (8), b = 20.136 (2), c = 10.0329 (4) Å, γ = 90.01 (1)°]. A precise analysis of the BeF4 tetrahedra in the low-temperature phase shows that two independent tetrahedra rotate in opposite directions along the doubled crystallographic axis. A symmetry mode analysis of the monoclinic distortion is also reported. This is the first report of the existence of such a phase transition in K2Mn2(BeF4)3 and also of a new type of low-temperature structure for langbeinite compounds.


2005 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Stride

The low-temperature structure of hexamethylbenzene has been determined from neutron powder diffraction data and found to differ from the room-temperature phase predominantly by a translation of molecular planes to a form a cubic close-packed type structure. By performing measurements as a function of temperature, the role of thermally induced agitation of the molecular units in the first-order phase transition is clearly demonstrated.


2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (21) ◽  
pp. 5389-5394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabri F. Elatresh ◽  
Weizhao Cai ◽  
N. W. Ashcroft ◽  
Roald Hoffmann ◽  
Shanti Deemyad ◽  
...  

The low-temperature crystal structure of elemental lithium, the prototypical simple metal, is a several-decades-old problem. At 1 atm pressure and 298 K, Li forms a body-centered cubic lattice, which is common to all alkali metals. However, a low-temperature phase transition was experimentally detected to a structure initially identified as having the 9R stacking. This structure, proposed by Overhauser in 1984, has been questioned repeatedly but has not been confirmed. Here we present a theoretical analysis of the Fermi surface of lithium in several relevant structures. We demonstrate that experimental measurements of the Fermi surface based on the de Haas–van Alphen effect can be used as a diagnostic method to investigate the low-temperature phase diagram of lithium. This approach may overcome the limitations of X-ray and neutron diffraction techniques and makes possible, in principle, the determination of the lithium low-temperature structure (and that of other metals) at both ambient and high pressure. The theoretical results are compared with existing low-temperature ambient pressure experimental data, which are shown to be inconsistent with a 9R phase for the low-temperature structure of lithium.


Author(s):  
C. Hejny ◽  
L. Bindi

K2Sc[Si2O6]F exhibits, at room temperature, a (3 + 2)-dimensional incommensurately modulated structure [a= 8.9878 (1),c= 8.2694 (2) Å,V= 668.01 (2) Å3; superspace groupP42/mnm(α,α,0)000s(−α,α,0)0000] with modulation wavevectorsq1= 0.2982 (4)(a* +b*) andq2= 0.2982 (4)(−a* +b*). Its low-temperature behaviour has been studied by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Down to 45 K, the irrational component α of the modulation wavevectors is quite constant varying from 0.2982 (4) (RT), through 0.2955 (8) (120 K), 0.297 (1) (90 K), 0.298 (1) (75 K), to 0.299 (1) (45 K). At 25 K it approaches the commensurate value of one-third [i.e.0.332 (3)]: thus indicating that the incommensurate–commensurate phase transition takes place between 45 K and 25 K. The commensurate lock-in phase of K2Sc[Si2O6]F has been solved and refined with a 3 × 3 × 1 supercell compared with the tetragonal incommensurately modulated structure stable at room temperature. This corresponds to a 3 × 1 × 3 supercell in the pseudo-orthorhombic monoclinic setting of the low-temperature structure, space groupP2/m, with lattice parametersa= 26.786 (3),b= 8.245 (2)c= 26.824 (3) Å, β = 90.00 (1)°. The structure is a mixed tetrahedral–octahedral framework composed of chains of [ScO4F2] octahedra that are interconnected by [Si4O12] rings with K atoms in fourfold to ninefold coordination. Distorted [ScO4F2] octahedra are connected to distorted Si tetrahedra to form octagonal arrangements closely resembling those observed in the incommensurate structure of fresnoite- and melilite-type compounds.


2011 ◽  
Vol 1309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertil Sundqvist ◽  
Ove Andersson ◽  
Issam Quwar ◽  
Alexandr Talyzin

ABSTRACTThe pressure-temperature (p-T) phase diagram of NH3BH3 has been investigated by thermal conductivity measurements up to 1.5 GPa at temperatures between 100 and 300 K, and the phase boundaries between the three known structural phases have been identified. The transformation between the room temperature tetragonal I4mm phase and the low temperature orthorhombic Pmn21 phase (Tc = 218 K at p = 0) shows only a small hysteresis. The transformation into the high pressure orthorhombic Cmc21 phase (at 1.0 GPa near 292 K) has a very strong hysteresis, up to Δp = 0.5 GPa, and below 230 K a fraction of this phase is metastable even at atmospheric pressure.


1996 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Zaleski ◽  
A. Pietraszko

[NH2(CH3)2]3Sb2Cl9 (dimethylammonium nonachlorodiantimonate, DMACA) has, at 200 K, a monoclinic Pc space group, with a = 9.470 (3), b = 9.034 (3), c = 14.080 (4) Å, β = 95.81 (3)°, V = 1198.4 (4) Å3, Z = 2 [R = 0.024, wR = 0.025 for 4613 independent reflections with F > 4σ(F)]. At 298 K DMACA has P21/c space group with a = 9.686 (3), b = 9.037 (3), c = 14.066 (4) Å, β = 95.57 (3)°, V = 1225.3 (5) Å3, Z = 2 [R = 0.034, wR = 0.035 for 2736 reflections with F > 4σ(F)]. The anionic sublattice of DMACA consists of polyanionic (Sb2Cl9 3−), layers. In the low-temperature phase there are three crystallographically non-equivalent dimethylammonium cations in the crystal structure. One of the cations is located inside the polyanionic layers, two others – one ordered and one disordered – between the polyanionic layers. In the room-temperature phase there are two non-equivalent cations – both disordered – in the crystal structure. Temperature dependencies of lattice parameters between 200 and 300 K were determined. The occurrence of a second-order phase transition at T = 242 K was confirmed. The dependence of lengths of Sb—Cl contacts on the presence and strength of N—H...CI hydrogen bonds was discussed. It was found that lengths of Sb—Cl bonds may differ from each other by as much as 0.3 Å, because of the presence of N—H...Cl hydrogen bonds. These differences were attributed to distortion of the lone-electron pair on antimony(Ill).


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