Jakub Cieslak, Stanislaw M Dubiel, Michael Reissner
{"title":"Site occupancy and lattice parameters in sigma-phase Co-Cr alloys.","authors":"Jakub Cieslak, Stanislaw M Dubiel, Michael Reissner","doi":"10.1107/S0108768112006234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S0108768112006234","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neutron powder diffraction was used to study the distribution of Co and Cr atoms over different lattice sites as well as the lattice parameters of sigma-phase compounds Co(100 - x)Cr(x) with x = 57.0, 62.7 and 65.8. From the diffractograms recorded in the temperature range of 4.2-300 K it was found for the five crystallographically independent sites that A (2a) and D (8i) are predominantly occupied by Co atoms, while sites B (4f), C (8i) and E (8j) mainly accommodate Cr atoms. The lattice parameters a and c exhibit linear temperature dependencies, with different expansion coefficients in the temperature ranges of 4.2-100 and 100-300 K.</p>","PeriodicalId":7107,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B-structural Science","volume":"68 Pt 2","pages":"123-7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1107/S0108768112006234","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30519687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ran Zheng, Lei Han, Qinhe Pan, Kirsten E Christensen, Tiezhen Ren
{"title":"Two novel Zn-MOFs: structures and characterization.","authors":"Ran Zheng, Lei Han, Qinhe Pan, Kirsten E Christensen, Tiezhen Ren","doi":"10.1107/S0108768112007999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S0108768112007999","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two novel three-dimensional Zn-MOFs (zinc metal-organic frameworks), Zn(5)(μ(3)-OH)(BTC)(3)(Phen)(4)·5H(2)O (denoted as HUT-11) and Zn(4)(μ(4)-O)(BTC)(2)(Phen)(2)·4H(2)O (denoted as HUT-12), have been synthesized by metal-ligand-directed assembly under hydrothermal conditions. Here, BTC and Phen are denoted as 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate and phenanthroline. HUT-11 contains two kinds of secondary building units (SBUs), Zn(3)(μ(3)-OH)(COO)(5) clusters and Zn(2)(COO)(4) clusters. This material exhibits a new three-dimensional (3,4,5)-connected topology with the Schläfli symbol (4·6·8)(2)(4·8(2))(4·6(4)·8(5))(4(2)·6(2)·8(2)). Two perpendicular planes cross at five coordinated Zn1-Zn3-Zn5 nodes, giving a new three-dimensional network. HUT-12 is composed of Zn(4)(μ(4)-O)(COO)(6) clusters as the secondary building units and displays a two-dimensional (3,6)-connected TiS(2) related net topology with the Schläfli symbol (4(2)·6)(4(4)·6(2)·8(8)·10). Both MOFs show blue light emission and a high thermal stability above 673 K.</p>","PeriodicalId":7107,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B-structural Science","volume":"68 Pt 2","pages":"158-63"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1107/S0108768112007999","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30518015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geometry and conformation of cyclopropane derivatives having σ-acceptor and σ-donor substituents: a theoretical and crystal structure database study.","authors":"Aurora J Cruz-Cabeza, Frank H Allen","doi":"10.1107/S0108768111054991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S0108768111054991","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The structures of cyclopropane rings which carry σ-acceptor or σ-donor substituents have been studied using density-functional theory (DFT), and mean bond lengths and conformational parameters retrieved from the Cambridge Structural Database. It is confirmed that σ-acceptor substituents, e.g. halogens, generate positive ring bond-length asymmetry in which there is lengthening of the distal bond (opposite to the point of substitution), and shorterning of the two vicinal bonds. This is due to withdrawal of electron density from the cyclopropane 1e'' orbitals, which are bonding for the distal bond and antibonding for the vicinal bonds. For σ-donor substituents such as SiH(3) or Si(CH(3))(3), the DFT and crystal structure data show negative ring bond-length asymmetry (distal bond shortened, vicinal bonds lengthened), owing to electron donation into the 4e' ring orbital, which are also bonding for the distal bond and antibonding for the vicinal bonds. The results also show that -OH substituents induce weak positive asymmetry, but that the effects of methyl or amino substituents are either non-existent or extremely small, certainly too small to measure using crystal structure information.</p>","PeriodicalId":7107,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B-structural Science","volume":"68 Pt 2","pages":"182-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1107/S0108768111054991","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30518018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martin Schmidbauer, Albert Kwasniewski, Jutta Schwarzkopf
{"title":"High-precision absolute lattice parameter determination of SrTiO3, DyScO3 and NdGaO3 single crystals.","authors":"Martin Schmidbauer, Albert Kwasniewski, Jutta Schwarzkopf","doi":"10.1107/S0108768111046738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S0108768111046738","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The lattice parameters of three perovskite-related oxides have been measured with high precision at room temperature. An accuracy of the order of 10(-5) has been achieved by applying a sophisticated high-resolution X-ray diffraction technique which is based on the modified Bond method. The results on cubic SrTiO(3) [a = 3.905268 (98) Å], orthorhombic DyScO(3) [a = 5.442417 (54), b = 5.719357 (52) and c = 7.904326 (98) Å], and orthorhombic NdGaO(3) [a = 5.428410 (54), b = 5.498407 (55) and c = 7.708878 (95) Å] are discussed in view of possible systematic errors as well as non-stoichiometry in the crystals.</p>","PeriodicalId":7107,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B-structural Science","volume":"68 Pt 1","pages":"8-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2012-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1107/S0108768111046738","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30406048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joachim Kusz, Maciej Zubko, Reinhard B Neder, Phillipp Gütlich
{"title":"Structural phase transition to disorder low-temperature phase in [Fe(ptz)6](BF4)2 spin-crossover compounds.","authors":"Joachim Kusz, Maciej Zubko, Reinhard B Neder, Phillipp Gütlich","doi":"10.1107/S0108768111053298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S0108768111053298","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the spin-crossover compound [Fe(ptz)(6)](BF(4))(2) (where ptz=1-n-propyltetrazole) six different phases are observed. When a single crystal is slowly cooled from high temperatures to those below 125 K, the reflections broaden into diffuse maxima and split into two maxima along the c* direction [Kusz, Gütlich & Spiering (2004). Top. Curr. Chem. 234, 129-153]. As both maxima are broad along the c* direction, the short-range order exists only along the c direction and in the ab plane the structure remains long-range ordered. In this disordered phase additional satellite reflections appear. Upon heating above 135 K, the diffuse maxima return to their previous shape and this process is completely reversible. Rapidly cooled samples, on the other hand, do not show such splitting and the symmetry remains Rbar 3, despite a jump in lattice parameters. We use a special technique to analyse the disorder model of the slowly cooled samples, which consists of layered domains shifted in the hexagonal ab plane. The low-spin disordered phase was solved in a novel approach to accommodate the very unusual twinning and refined in the non-standard space group Cbar 1. In contrast to the ordered low-spin phase, the Fe ion is in a non-centrosymmetric coordination polyhedron and two of the six propyl groups change their conformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":7107,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B-structural Science","volume":"68 Pt 1","pages":"40-56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2012-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1107/S0108768111053298","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30406052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An order-disorder phase transition in the structure of C60·4benzene.","authors":"Marilyn M Olmstead, Alan L Balch, Hon Man Lee","doi":"10.1107/S0108768111046593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S0108768111046593","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A reversible, broad, order-disorder phase transition in the structure of C(60)·4benzene has been observed to take place with an inflection point at 134 K. In the low-temperature structure fullerene disorder is removed, although the average atomic displacement parameters differ for the two C(60) molecules in the asymmetric unit. Some benzene disorder persists, even at 13 K.</p>","PeriodicalId":7107,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B-structural Science","volume":"68 Pt 1","pages":"66-70"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2012-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1107/S0108768111046593","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30406054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hasan Karabıyık, Hande Karabıyık, Nazan Ocak İskeleli
{"title":"Hydrogen-bridged chelate ring-assisted π-stacking interactions.","authors":"Hasan Karabıyık, Hande Karabıyık, Nazan Ocak İskeleli","doi":"10.1107/S0108768111052608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S0108768111052608","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A salicylideneaniline (SA) derivative, (6Z)-6-({[2-(hydroxymethyl)phenyl]amino}methylidene)-3,5-dimethoxycyclohexa-2,4-dien-1-one monohydrate, has an increased aromaticity within its hydrogen-bridged chelate ring owing to its NH character. In the reported crystal structure, nonconventional π-stacking interactions, which are referred to as hybrid π-stacking interactions, are observed between a quasiaromatic chelate ring, formed as a result of the resonance-assisted intramolecular hydrogen bond and ordinary aromatic rings. Besides, π-stacking interactions are also seen between two hydrogen-bridged quasiaromatic chelate rings, which are referred to as pure π-stacking interactions. A CSD search has revealed that both kinds of interactions are frequently observed in molecular crystals of SA derivatives in fully or partially NH tautomeric form, and aromaticity levels of certain fragments of SA derivatives have dramatic effects on their stacking arrangements. These interactions are distinguished from the usual π···π interactions by their formation character, i.e. both σ- and π-deficient and σ-deficient character of pure interactions is more pronounced than that of the hybrid ones.</p>","PeriodicalId":7107,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B-structural Science","volume":"68 Pt 1","pages":"71-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2012-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1107/S0108768111052608","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30406055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mauro Gemmi, Italo Campostrini, Francesco Demartin, Tatiana E Gorelik, Carlo Maria Gramaccioli
{"title":"Structure of the new mineral sarrabusite, Pb5CuCl4(SeO3)4, solved by manual electron-diffraction tomography.","authors":"Mauro Gemmi, Italo Campostrini, Francesco Demartin, Tatiana E Gorelik, Carlo Maria Gramaccioli","doi":"10.1107/S010876811104688X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S010876811104688X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The new mineral sarrabusite Pb(5)CuCl(4)(SeO(3))(4) has been discovered in the Sardinian mine of Baccu Locci, near Villaputzu. It occurs as small lemon-yellow spherical aggregates of tabular crystals (< 10 µm) of less than 100 µm in diameter. The crystal structure has been solved from and refined against electron diffraction of a microcrystal. Data sets have been measured by both a manual and an automated version of the new electron-diffraction tomography technique combined with the precession of the electron beam. The sarrabusite structure is monoclinic and consists of (010) layers of straight chains formed by alternating edge-sharing CuO(4)Cl(2) and PbO(8) polyhedra parallel to the c axis, which share corners laterally with two zigzag corner-sharing chains of PbO(6)Cl(2) and PbO(4)Cl(4) bicapped trigonal prisms. These blocks are linked together by SeO(3)(2-) flat-pyramidal groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":7107,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B-structural Science","volume":"68 Pt 1","pages":"15-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2012-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1107/S010876811104688X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30406049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K Röttger, A Endriss, Jörg Ihringer, S Doyle, W F Kuhs
{"title":"Lattice constants and thermal expansion of H2O and D2O ice Ih between 10 and 265 K. Addendum.","authors":"K Röttger, A Endriss, Jörg Ihringer, S Doyle, W F Kuhs","doi":"10.1107/S0108768111046908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S0108768111046908","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a previous paper we reported the lattice constants and thermal expansion of normal and deuterated ice Ih [Röttger et al. (1994). Acta Cryst. B 50, 644-648]. Synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction data were used to obtain the lattice constants and unit-cell volumes of H(2)O and D(2)O ice Ih in the temperature range 15-265 K. A polynomial expression was given for the unit-cell volumes. It turns out that the coefficients quoted have an insufficient number of digits to faithfully reproduce the volume cell data. Here we provide a table with more significant digits. Moreover, we also provide the coefficients of a polynomial fit to the previously published a and c lattice constants of normal and deuterated ice Ih for the same temperature range.</p>","PeriodicalId":7107,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B-structural Science","volume":"68 Pt 1","pages":"91"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2012-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1107/S0108768111046908","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30404869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}