A synchrotron X-ray diffraction analysis of near-stoichiometric LiNbO3

Author(s):  
B. Etschmann ◽  
N. Ishizawa ◽  
V. Streltsov ◽  
S. Oishi

AbstractSingle-crystal diffraction data was collected at 120 and 294 K for an approximately spherical LiNbO

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsunehisa Kimura ◽  
Chengkang Chang ◽  
Fumiko Kimura ◽  
Masataka Maeyama

A novel method that enables single-crystal diffraction data to be obtained from a powder sample is presented. A suspension of LiCoPO4microrods was subjected to a frequency-modulated dynamic elliptical magnetic field to align the microrods; the alignment achieved was consolidated by photopolymerization of the suspending UV-curable monomer. The composite thus obtained (referred to as a pseudo single crystal) gave rise to X-ray diffraction data from which the crystal structure was solved using the standard method for single-crystal X-ray analyses. The structure determined was in good agreement with that reported using a conventional single crystal.


2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (a1) ◽  
pp. C1449-C1449
Author(s):  
Tao Zhang ◽  
Shifeng Jin ◽  
Yuanxin Gu ◽  
Yao He ◽  
Haifu Fan

With the serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) [1] using hard X-ray free-electron laser as light source, it is possible to obtained three-dimensional single-crystal diffraction data from powder samples consisting of submicron crystal grains. This offers two advantages. First, complicated crystal structures far beyond the ability of powder X-ray diffraction analysis now can be solved easily; second, mixtures of two or more crystalline components can be examined in a single experiment. The percentage of each component can be determined accurately and the crystal structure of them can be solved readily. Simulating calculations were performed with a mixture of two different kinds of zeolites. The program suite CrystFEL [2] was used for simulating SFX diffraction patterns, diffraction indexing and Monte-Carlo integration of diffraction intensities. The program suite SHELX [3] was used for structure determination. Satisfactory results have been obtained and will be discussed in detail.


2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Needham ◽  
J. Faber ◽  
T. G. Fawcett ◽  
D. H. Olson

An experimental X-ray powder diffraction pattern was produced and analyzed for alpha-polymorphic tegafur, also called Ftorafur (an antineoplastic agent). The indexed data matched the powder patterns in the ICDD PDF-4/Organics database calculated from the reported single-crystal X-ray diffraction data in the Cambridge Structural Database. Alpha tegafur has a triclinic crystal system, with reduced cell parameters of a=16.720(6) Å, b=9.021(5) Å, c=5.995(3) Å, α=93.66(4)°, β=93.15(8)°, γ=100.14(4)°. There are four formula units contained in one unit cell. The cell volume and space group were determined to be 886.27 Å3 and P-1, respectively.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Louër ◽  
J. Rius ◽  
P. Bénard-Rocherullé ◽  
M. Louër

The crystal structure of the layered cadmium hydroxide sulfate Cd4SO4(OH)6.1.5H2O has been solved from X-ray powder diffraction data. The compound crystallizes with hexagonal symmetry, a=9.145(1) Å, c=15.099(3) Å, V=1093.5 Å3, Z=4, space group P63. Due to the unusual environment of one cadmium atom and to the fact that a suitable thin tabular crystal could be found later, a single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiment was also carried out. In both cases the structure was solved applying direct-methods. The refinements converged to the residual factors Rwp=0.152 and RF=0.059 from the powder data and R1=0.058 and wR=0.165 for the single crystal data case. The structure is built from brucite-type layers based on CdO6 octahedra, in which one-seventh of the octahedral sites are empty. Directly above and below these empty sites, two additional octahedrically coordinated Cd atoms are located. The crystal chemistry of the cadmium hydroxide sulfate family is discussed.


2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 411-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgit Gerke ◽  
Rainer Pöttgen

AbstractRE3Au5Zn (RE = Y, Sm, Gd–Ho) intermetallic compounds were synthesized by melting the elements in sealed tantalum tubes. They exhibit a new structure type which was studied by X-ray diffraction on powders and refined from single crystal diffraction data: Cmcm, a = 736.9(2), b = 1489.4(2), c = 1330.4(3) pm, wR2 = 0.0371, 1184 F2 values and 55 variables for Y3Au4.92Zn1.08 and a = 739.0(1), b = 1495.8(2), c = 1339.2(2) pm, wR2 = 0.0325, 1410 F2 values and 54 variables for Tb3Au5Zn. The network consists of five- and six-membered gold rings in puckered conformations. Atoms of the rare earth elements are placed within the cavities of this network where every third cavity is filled by a Zn2 dumbbell. The structure is discussed in detail and compared with the gold substructure of Hf7Au10.


Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 877
Author(s):  
Chieh-Kai Chan ◽  
Chien-Yu Lai ◽  
Cheng-Chung Wang

Herein, we report a facile synthetic methodology for the preparation of 2,3-dialkylquinolines from anilines and propionaldehydes. This cyclization involved environmentally friendly Nafion® NR50 as an acidic catalyst with microwave irradiation as the heating source. A series of substituted 2-ethyl-3-methylquinolines were prepared from various anilines and propionaldehyde derivatives through this protocol with good to excellent yields. Some new chemical structures were confirmed by X-ray single-crystal diffraction analysis and the related data were provided. The plausible reaction mechanism studies are also discussed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (8) ◽  
pp. 765-768
Author(s):  
Bohdana Belan ◽  
Dorota Kowalska ◽  
Mariya Dzevenko ◽  
Mykola Manyako ◽  
Roman Gladyshevskii

AbstractThe crystal structure of the phase Ce5AgxGe4−x (x = 0.1−1.08) has been determined using single-crystal X-ray diffraction data for Ce5Ag0.1Ge3.9. This phase is isotypic with Sm5Ge4: space group Pnma (No. 62), Pearson code oP36, Z = 4, a = 7.9632(2), b = 15.2693(5), c = 8.0803(2) Å; R1 = 0.0261, wR2 = 0.0460, 1428 F2 values and 48 variables. The two crystallographic positions 8d and 4c show Ge/Ag mixing, leading to a slight increase in the lattice parameters as compared to those of the pure binary compound Ce5Ge4.


1989 ◽  
Vol 161 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 598-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Calestani ◽  
C. Rizzoli ◽  
M.G. Francesconi ◽  
G.D. Andreetti

Author(s):  
Anatoly A. Udovenko ◽  
Alexander A. Karabtsov ◽  
Natalia M. Laptash

A classical elpasolite-type structure is considered with respect to dynamically disordered ammonium fluoro-(oxofluoro-)metallates. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction data from high quality (NH4)3HfF7 and (NH4)3Ti(O2)F5 samples enabled the refinement of the ligand and cationic positions in the cubic Fm \bar 3 m (Z = 4) structure. Electron-density atomic profiles show that the ligand atoms are distributed in a mixed (split) position instead of 24e. One of the ammonium groups is disordered near 8c so that its central atom (N1) forms a tetrahedron with vertexes in 32f. However, a center of another group (N2) remains in the 4b site, whereas its H atoms (H2) occupy the 96k positions instead of 24e and, together with the H3 atom in the 32f position, they form eight spatial orientations of the ammonium group. It is a common feature of all ammonium fluoroelpasolites with orientational disorder of structural units of a dynamic nature.


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