Temperature-induced phase transition of isonicotinamide-malonic acid (2/1) and supramolecular construct analysis of isonicotinamide structures

2018 ◽  
Vol 233 (8) ◽  
pp. 539-554
Author(s):  
Tze Shyang Chia ◽  
Ching Kheng Quah

Abstract The isonicotinamide-malonic acid (2/1) co-crystal salt (2IN·C3) exhibits a first-order displacive structural phase transition from low-temperature triclinic P1̅ crystal structure to high-temperature monoclinic C2/c crystal structure and vice versa at the transition temperatures of 298 (1) and 295 (1) K, respectively, as determined by variable-temperature SCXRD analysis and DSC measurements. The asymmetric unit of 2IN·C3 comprises three malonic acid molecules and six isonicotinamide molecules at the low-temperature phase, and this is reduced to a half-molecule of malonic acid and an isonicotinamide molecule in the high-temperature phase. The carboxyl and pyridinium H atoms are disordered at both phases. The observed phase transition near room temperature is triggered by the molecular displacement of the isonicotinamide molecule and the syn-anti conformational transformation of the malonic acid molecule with deviation angles of 10.4 and 11.7°, respectively, which induced an energy change of 19.1 kJ mol−1 in the molecular cluster comprising a central isonicotinamide molecule and eight neighboring molecules. However, the total interaction energy of the molecular cluster of a central malonic acid molecule and eight neighboring molecules does not change significantly upon the phase transition. The molecules of isonicotinamide structures except IN·IN+·triazole‒ form zero-dimensional finite arrays or one-dimensional chains as the primary supramolecular construct by carboxyl···pyridyl (−35.9 to −56.7 kJ mol−1) and carboxamide···carboxamide (−53.6 to −68.7 kJ mol−1) or carboxyl···carboxamide (−52.6 to −67.1 kJ mol−1) synthons.

2000 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Knight

AbstractHigh-resolution, neutron time-of-flight, powder diffraction data have been collected on natural crocoite between 873 and 1073 K. Thermal analysis carried out in the 1920s had suggested that chemically pure PbCrO4 exhibited two structural phase transitions, at 964 K, to the β phase, and at 1056 K, to the γ phase. In this study, no evidence was found for the α-β structural phase transition, however a high-temperature phase transition was found at ∼1068 K from the ambient-temperature monazite structure type to the baryte structure type. The phase transition, close to the temperatures reported for the β to γ phase modifications, is first order and is accompanied by a change in volume of −1.6%. The crystal structure of this phase has been refined using the Rietveld method to agreement factors of Rp = 0.018, Rwp = 0.019, Rp = 0.011. No evidence for premonitory behaviour was found in the temperature dependence of the monoclinic lattice constants rom 873 K to 1063 K and these have been used to determine the thermal expansion tensor of crocoite just below the phase transition. At 1000 K the magnitudes of the tensor coefficients are α11, 2.66(1) × 10−5 K−1; α22, 2.04(1) × 10−5 K−1; α33, 4.67(4) × 10−5 K−1; and α13, −1.80(2) × 10−5 K−1 using the IRE convention for the orientation of the tensor basis. The orientation of the principal axes of the thermal expansion tensor are very close to those reported previously for the temperature range 50–300 K.


2006 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 719-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. H. Oh ◽  
M. Merz ◽  
S. Mattauch ◽  
G. Heger

The crystal structure of TlH2PO4 (TDP) has been studied at low temperature. The lattice parameters were derived from high-resolution X-ray powder diffraction in the temperature range between 8 and 300 K. A detailed crystal structure analysis of the antiferroelectric low-temperature phase TDP-III has been performed based on neutron diffraction data measured at 210 K on a twinned crystal consisting of two domain states. The structure model in the triclinic space group P\bar 1 is characterized by a complete ordering of all the H atoms in the asymmetric O—H...O hydrogen bonds. The phase transition from the ferroelastic TDP-II to the antiferroelectric TDP-III phase at 229.5 ± 0.5 K is only slightly of first order and shows no detectable hysteresis effects. Its mechanism is driven by the hydrogen ordering between the partially ordered TDP-II state and the completely ordered TDP-III state. The polymorphism of TDP and the fully deuterated TlD2PO4 (DTDP) is presented in the form of group–subgroup relations between the different space groups.


Author(s):  
Bi-Qin Wang ◽  
Hai-Biao Yan ◽  
Zheng-Qing Huang ◽  
Zhi Zhang

A new metal–formate framework, poly[1H-imidazol-3-ium [tri-μ2-formato-manganese(II)]], {(C3H5N2)[Mn(HCOO)3]}n, was synthesized and its structural phase transition was studied by thermal analysis and variable-temperature X-ray diffraction analysis. The transition temperature is around 435 K. The high-temperature phase is tetragonal and the low-temperature phase is monoclinic, with a β angle close to 90°. The relationship of the unit cells between the two phases can be described as:aHT= 0.5aLT+ 0.5bLT;bHT= −0.5aLT+ 0.5bLT;cHT = 0.5cLT. In the high-temperature phase, both the framework and the guest 1H-imidazol-3-ium (HIm) cations are disordered; the HIm cations are located about 2mmsites and were modelled as fourfold disordered. The Mn and a formate C atom are located on fourfold rotary inversion axes, while another formate C atom is on a mirror plane. The low-temperature structure is ordered and consists of two crystallographically independent HIm cations and two crystallographically independent Mn2+ions. The phase transition is attributable to the order–disorder transition of the HIm cations.


Author(s):  
Tze Shyang Chia ◽  
Ching Kheng Quah

Hexamethylenetetramine-benzoic acid (1/2) (HBA) and hexamethylenetetramine-4-methylbenzoic acid (1/2) (HMBA) co-crystals undergo order–disorder structural phase transition from a low-temperature monoclinic crystal structure to a high-temperature orthorhombic crystal structure at the transition temperatures of 257.5 (5) K (Pn↔Fmm2) and 265.5 (5) K (P21/n↔Cmcm), respectively, using variable-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The observed phase transitions were confirmed to be reversible first-order transitions as indicated by the sharp endothermic and exothermic peaks in the differential scanning calorimetry measurement. The three-molecule aggregate of HBA and HMBA consists of a hexamethylenetetramine molecule and two benzoic acid or two 4-methylbenzoic acid molecules, respectively. The acid molecules are ordered at the low-temperature phase and are equally disordered over two positions, which are related by a mirror symmetry, at the high-temperature phase. The two-dimensional supramolecular constructs common to both co-crystals are formed by three-molecule aggregatesviaweak intermolecular C—H...O and C—H...π interactions into molecular trilayers parallel to theacplane with smallXPacdissimilarity indices and parameters. ThePIXELinteraction energies of all corresponding molecular contacts were calculated and the results are comparable between HBA and HMBA co-crystals, resulting in similar lattice energies and transition temperatures despite their two-dimensional isostructural relationship. The observed phase transitions of these two energetically similar co-crystals are triggered by similar mechanisms,i.e.the molecular rotator ordering and structural order–disorder transformation, which induced non-merohedral twinning with similar twin matrices in the low-temperature crystal form of both co-crystals.


2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (12) ◽  
pp. 971-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tze Shyang Chia ◽  
Ching Kheng Quah

As a function of temperature, the hexamethylenetetramine–2-methylbenzoic acid (1/2) cocrystal, C6H12N4·2C8H8O2, undergoes a reversible structural phase transition. The orthorhombic high-temperature phase in the space groupPccnhas been studied in the temperature range between 165 and 300 K. At 164 K, at2phase transition to the monoclinic subgroupP21/cspace group occurs; the resulting twinned low-temperature phase was investigated in the temperature range between 164 and 100 K. The domains in the pseudomerohedral twin are related by a twofold rotation corresponding to the matrix (100/0-10/00-1. Systematic absence violations represent a sensitive criterium for the decision about the correct space-group assignment at each temperature. The fractional volume contributions of the minor twin domain in the low-temperature phase increases in the order 0.259 (2) → 0.318 (2) → 0.336 (2) → 0.341 (3) as the temperature increases in the order 150 → 160 → 163 → 164 K. The transformation occurs between the nonpolar point groupmmmand the nonpolar point group 2/m, and corresponds to a ferroelastic transition or to at2structural phase transition. The asymmetric unit of the low-temperature phase consists of two hexamethylenetetramine molecules and four molecules of 2-methylbenzoic acid; it is smaller by a factor of 2 in the high-temperature phase and contains two half molecules of hexamethylenetetramine, which sit across twofold axes, and two molecules of the organic acid. In both phases, the hexamethylenetetramine residue and two benzoic acid molecules form a three-molecule aggregate; the low-temperature phase contains two of these aggregates in general positions, whereas they are situated on a crystallographic twofold axis in the high-temperature phase. In both phases, one of these three-molecule aggregates is disordered. For this disordered unit, the ratio between the major and minor conformer increases upon cooling from 0.567 (7):0.433 (7) at 170 Kvia0.674 (6):0.326 (6) and 0.808 (5):0.192 (5) at 160 K to 0.803 (6):0.197 (6) and 0.900 (4):0.100 (4) at 150 K, indicating temperature-dependent dynamic molecular disorder. Even upon further cooling to 100 K, the disorder is retained in principle, albeit with very low site occupancies for the minor conformer.


Author(s):  
Khai-Nghi Truong ◽  
Carina Merkens ◽  
Martin Meven ◽  
Björn Faßbänder ◽  
Richard Dronskowski ◽  
...  

Single-crystal neutron diffraction experiments at 100 and 2.5 K have been performed to determine the structure of 3-(pyridin-4-yl)pentane-2,4-dione (HacacPy) with respect to its protonation pattern and to monitor a low-temperature phase transition. Solid HacacPy exists as the enol tautomer with a short intramolecular hydrogen bond. At 100 K, its donor···acceptor distance is 2.450 (8) Å and the compound adopts space group C2/c, with the N and para-C atoms of the pyridyl ring and the central C of the acetylacetone substituent on the twofold crystallographic axis. As a consequence of the axial symmetry, the bridging hydrogen is disordered over two symmetrically equivalent positions, and the carbon–oxygen bond distances adopt intermediate values between single and double bonds. Upon cooling, a structural phase transition to the t 2 subgroup P\bar 1 occurs; the resulting twins show an ordered acetylacetone moiety. The phase transition is fully reversible but associated with an appreciable hysteresis in the large single crystal under study: transition to the low-temperature phase requires several hours at 2.5 K and heating to 80 K is required to revert the transformation. No significant hysteresis is observed in a powder sample, in agreement with the second-order nature of the phase transition.


1990 ◽  
Vol 45 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 293-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Borchers ◽  
Alarich Weiss

Abstract35Cl NQR spectra of eleven hexachlorometallates (IV) A1 [MCl6] and A'[MCl6], M = Sn, Te, Pb, and A+ =ethylammonium, 4-picolinium, anilinium, triethylammonium, chinoxalinium, and piperi-dinium ions, and A'2+ = 1.3-propylenediammonium ion, have been observed as a function of tem-perature. The ethylammonium hexachlorometallates(IV) (C2H5 NH3)2 [MCl6], M = Sn, Te, show a phase transition at 128.8 K and 204 K, respectively. Both compounds yield a single resonance line in their high temperature phases. In case of the stannate this single 35Cl resonance line splits up into two lines at Tc = 128.8 K, whereas for the tellurate no 35Cl NQR signals could be found in the low temperature phase. A phase transition was also found for the 1.3-propylenediammonium hexa-chlorostannate(IV) at 287 K where the six line NQR spectrum of the low temperature phase changes into a four line spectrum. In contrast, the corresponding plumbate shows no transition. All other compounds studied contain distorted [MCl6]2- octahedra, and therefore they yield more than one 35Cl resonance line. The complexes have been investigated in the temperature range temperature where the lines fade out. In case of the hexachlorostannates(IV) with the ethylammonium, the 1.3-propylenediammonium and the triethylammonium ions, the crystal structures of the compounds are known and compared with the results of the 35Cl NQR spectroscopy.


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