Reversible high-temperature phase transition of a manganese(II) formate framework with imidazolium cations

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.

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):  
M. A. Zakharov ◽  
Sergej I. Troyanov ◽  
Erhard Kemnitz

AbstractThe crystal structure of the high temperature superprotonic phase of CsHSeO


2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (a1) ◽  
pp. C95-C95
Author(s):  
Dan Liu ◽  
Tsunetomo Yamada ◽  
Cesar Gómez ◽  
Vaclav Petricek ◽  
Michal Dusek ◽  
...  

We present an in-situ temperature study of the atomic structure of the 1/1 Cd6Tb approximant to an icosahedral quasicrystal. It belongs to the `Tsai' type family of quasicrystal and approximants whose archetype is the well-studied Cd-Yb system[1]. Its high temperature structure can be described as a bcc packing of a large Tsai atomic cluster, whose inner shell is a disordered tetrahedron at room temperature. As for most of the Cd6RE (RE=rare earth) approximant, the Cd6Tb phase undergoes a phase transition at 190 K to a phase of lower symmetry, resulting from an ordering of the inner tetrahedron[2]. Moreover, it has been shown that this phase undergoes a magnetic phase transition below 20 K, with an antiferromagnetic ordering of the Tb moment bearing atoms. It is thus particularly important to have a detailed structural study of this phase. We have carried out a systematic in situ measurement on a single grain from room temperature down to 40K on the crystal beam line located at the Soleil synchrotron. The structural phase transition is observed at about 190K. Using different attenuation, we have collected integrated intensity in a large dynamical range, leading to more than 60000 unique reflections in the C2/c monoclinic low temperature phase. The final wR2 values for room temperature and 40K are equal to 0.0726 and 0.0905 respectively. The resulting atomic structure will be compared to the well-studied approximant Zn6Sc, which is isostructural to Cd6Tb[3]. The ordering of the innermost tetrahedron leads to the distortion of the successive shells. The evolution of the high temperature phase, in particular just above Tc where pretransitional diffuse scattering is observed will be presented.


Author(s):  
Yuan Chen ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Binzu Gao ◽  
Chuli Zhu ◽  
Zunqi Liu

Two novel inorganic–organic hybrid supramolecular assemblies, namely, (4-HNA)(18-crown-6)(HSO4) (1) and (4-HNA)2(18-crown-6)2(PF6)2(CH3OH) (2) (4-HNA = 4-nitroanilinium), were synthesized and characterized by infrared spectroscopy, single X-ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and temperature-dependent dielectric measurements. The two compounds underwent reversible phase transitions at about 255 K and 265 K, respectively. These phase transitions were revealed and confirmed by the thermal anomalies in DSC measurements and abrupt dielectric anomalies during heating. The phase transition may have originated from the [(4-HNA)(18-crown-6)]+ supramolecular cation. The inorganic anions tuned the crystal packings and thus influenced the phase-transition points and types. The variable-temperature X-ray diffraction data for crystal 1 revealed the occurrence of a phase transition in the high-temperature phase with the space group of P21/c and in the low-temperature phase with the space group of P21/n. Crystal 2 exhibited the same space group P21/c at different temperatures. The results indicated that crystals 1 and 2 both underwent an iso-structural phase transition.


Author(s):  
Jean Zinn-Justin

At low temperature, the large distance properties of the O(2) spin lattice model can be described by the O(2) non-linear σ-model. The latter model is free and massless in two dimensions. The origin of this peculiarity can be found in the local structure of the field manifold: for N = 2, the O(N) sphere reduces to a circle, which cannot be distinguished locally from a straight line. Because the physical fields are sin θ or cos θ, or equivalently e± iθ, instead of θ, a field renormalization is necessary, and temperature-dependent anomalous dimensions are generated. However, the free θ action cannot describe the long-distance properties of the lattice model for all temperatures, since a high temperature analysis of the corresponding spin model shows that the correlation length is finite at high temperature, and thus a phase transition is required. In fact, it is necessary to take into account the property that θ is a cyclic variable. This condition is irrelevant at low temperature, but when the temperature increases, classical configurations with singularities at isolated points, around which θ varies by a multiple of 2π become important. The action of these configurations (vortices) can be identified with the energy of a neutral Coulomb gas, which exhibits a transition between a low temperature of bound neutral molecules and a high temperature phase of a plasma of free charges. The Coulomb gas can be mapped onto the sine-Gordon (sG) model, mapping in which the low- and high-temperature regions of the models are exchanged. This correspondence helps to understand some properties of the famous Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) phase transition, which separates an infinite correlation length phase without order, the low-temperature phase of the O(2) spin model, from a finite correlation length phase, the high-temperature phase of the O(2) spin model.


CrystEngComm ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (38) ◽  
pp. 6295-6301
Author(s):  
Vadim A. Dubskikh ◽  
Anna A. Lysova ◽  
Denis G. Samsonenko ◽  
Danil N. Dybtsev ◽  
Vladimir P. Fedin

A facile crystal-to-crystal solid-state phase transition between a low-temperature phase and a high temperature phase changes the MOF topology and involves a significant rearrangement of bulky organic ligands.


2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (7) ◽  
pp. 697-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Scholz ◽  
Hans-Wolfram Lerner ◽  
Jan W. Bats

Crystals of hexa-tert-butyldisilane, C24H54Si2, undergo a reversible phase transition at 179 (2) K. The space group changes fromIbca(high temperature) toPbca(low temperature), but the lattice constantsa,bandcdo not change significantly during the phase transition. The crystallographic twofold axis of the molecule in the high-temperature phase is replaced by a noncrystallographic twofold axis in the low-temperature phase. The angle between the two axes is 2.36 (4)°. The centre of the molecule undergoes a translation of 0.123 (1) Å during the phase transition, but the conformation angles of the molecule remain unchanged. Between the two tri-tert-butylsilyl subunits there are six short repulsive intramolecular C—H...H—C contacts, with H...H distances between 2.02 and 2.04 Å, resulting in a significant lengthening of the Si—Si and Si—C bonds. The Si—Si bond length is 2.6863 (5) Å and the Si—C bond lengths are between 1.9860 (14) and 1.9933 (14) Å. Torsion angles about the Si—Si and Si—C bonds deviate by approximately 15° from the values expected for staggered conformations due to intramolecular steric H...H repulsions. A new polymorph is reported for the crystal structure of 1,1,2,2-tetra-tert-butyl-1,2-diphenyldisilane, C28H46Si2. It has two independent molecules with rather similar conformations. The Si—Si bond lengths are 2.4869 (8) and 2.4944 (8) Å. The C—Si—Si—C torsion angles deviate by between −3.4 (1) and −18.5 (1)° from the values expected for a staggered conformation. These deviations result from steric interactions. Four Si—C(t-Bu) bonds are almost staggered, while the other four Si—C(t-Bu) bonds are intermediate between a staggered and an eclipsed conformation. The latter Si—C(t-Bu) bonds are about 0.019 (2) Å longer than the staggered Si—C(t-Bu) bonds.


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