Andrzej Grzechnik, Vaclav Petříček, Dmitry Chernyshov, Charles McMonagle, Tobias Geise, Hend Shahed, Karen Friese
{"title":"Incommensurate structures and radiation damage in Rb<sub>2</sub>V<sub>3</sub>O<sub>8</sub> and K<sub>2</sub>V<sub>3</sub>O<sub>8</sub> mixed-valence vanadate fresnoites.","authors":"Andrzej Grzechnik, Vaclav Petříček, Dmitry Chernyshov, Charles McMonagle, Tobias Geise, Hend Shahed, Karen Friese","doi":"10.1107/S2052520623000999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520623000999","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The structures and phase transitions to incommensurate structures in Rb<sub>2</sub>V<sub>3</sub>O<sub>8</sub> and K<sub>2</sub>V<sub>3</sub>O<sub>8</sub> mixed-valence vanadate fresnoites are studied with synchrotron single-crystal diffraction at low temperatures and ambient pressure. Although mixed satellite reflections are absent, the modulated structure of K<sub>2</sub>V<sub>3</sub>O<sub>8</sub> below 115 K is better described in (3 + 2)- than in (3 + 1)-dimensional space. The geometries of the VO<sub>4</sub> and VO<sub>5</sub> building units are rigid and it is mainly slight rotations of these polyhedra and small variation of the intermediate K-O distances that are modulated. Prolonged exposure to the high-brilliance synchrotron beam suppresses the incommensurate phase. The previously postulated phase transition to the incommensurate phase in Rb<sub>2</sub>V<sub>3</sub>O<sub>8</sub> at 270 K was not observed. One of the reasons could be that the intense radiation also affects the modulation in this material. Strategies to collect and analyse single-crystal diffraction data measured with very intense synchrotron radiation using modern low-noise pixel area detectors are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":7320,"journal":{"name":"Acta crystallographica Section B, Structural science, crystal engineering and materials","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10088480/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9293885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elena Selezneva, Irina Makarova, Radmir Gainutdinov, Alla Tolstikhina, Inna Malyshkina, Nikolai Somov, Evgeniy Chuprunov
{"title":"Conductivity, its anisotropy and changes as a manifestation of the features of the atomic and real structures of superprotonic [K<sub>1-x</sub>(NH<sub>4</sub>)<sub>x</sub>]<sub>3</sub>H(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub> crystals.","authors":"Elena Selezneva, Irina Makarova, Radmir Gainutdinov, Alla Tolstikhina, Inna Malyshkina, Nikolai Somov, Evgeniy Chuprunov","doi":"10.1107/S2052520622011751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520622011751","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Single crystals of [K<sub>1-x</sub>(NH<sub>4</sub>)<sub>x</sub>]<sub>3</sub>H(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub> (x ≥ 0.57) grown in the K<sub>3</sub>H(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub>-(NH<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub>H(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub>-H<sub>2</sub>O water-salt system are studied. The atomic structure including H atoms was determined at room temperature using X-ray structural analysis. [K<sub>1-x</sub>(NH<sub>4</sub>)<sub>x</sub>]<sub>3</sub>H(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub> (x ≥ 0.57) crystals have trigonal symmetry and disordered hydrogen-bond networks at ambient conditions similar to the high-temperature phases of K<sub>3</sub>H(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub>, (NH<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub>H(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub> and other superprotonic compounds M<sub>3</sub>H(AO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub>. Impedance measurements performed on single crystals show high values of conductivity characteristic for superprotonic phases. Using the methods of impedance spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy, a significant anisotropy of the conductivity of crystals has been detected. It was also shown that there is a qualitative correlation of bulk and local conductivity measured for samples of the same composition and orientation at room temperature, which is due to the peculiarities of their crystal structure.</p>","PeriodicalId":7320,"journal":{"name":"Acta crystallographica Section B, Structural science, crystal engineering and materials","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10663481","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":"A rod- and tessellation-based comparative analysis of polymorphic and structurally-invariant molecular crystals: application to sulfathiazole and 2-benzyl-5-benzylidenecyclopentanones.","authors":"Noel W Thomas, David S Hughes","doi":"10.1107/S205252062201160X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S205252062201160X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A rationalization of the alternative crystal structures adopted by a given molecular compound or by a set of substitutionally related molecular compounds is provided by reference to the five known polymorphs of sulfathiazole and 16 substituted 2-benzyl-5-benzylidene cyclopentanones (BBCPs), respectively. Two-dimensional (2D) packing fractions (ϕ<sub>2D</sub>) take space-group symmetry into account, with a clear demarcation of closed-packed zones (CPZ) and molecular junction zones (JZ) in all Z' = 1 structures. Representation of the molecules as two linked rods allows a concise treatment of conformation and rapid visualization of crystal packing. Combined with calculations of intermolecular potential energies, the rod method provides insight into the stabilization mechanisms of alternative polymorphs. In sulfathiazole, the primary factor is to obtain satisfactory hydrogen bonding, with close packing a secondary consideration. In BBCP derivatives, by comparison, close packing is the primary mechanism of stabilization. Whereas the 2D structures arising in CPZ can be analysed as tessellations of molecular-based cells, a method based on 2D Dirichlet cells is required for the JZ. These are calculated from the centroids of the molecular envelopes in high-symmetry planes. It is shown that these centroid coordinates, when combined with space-group symmetry and unit cell coordinates, provide a concise parameterization of all structures containing JZ. It is anticipated that this parameterization may be exploited to predict such crystal structures from powder diffraction data.</p>","PeriodicalId":7320,"journal":{"name":"Acta crystallographica Section B, Structural science, crystal engineering and materials","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10663483","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":"Elucidation of molecular crystals with one-, two- or three-dimensional geometrical models.","authors":"Vladislav A Blatov","doi":"10.1107/S2052520623000203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520623000203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7320,"journal":{"name":"Acta crystallographica Section B, Structural science, crystal engineering and materials","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10663484","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}
Navjot Kaur, Atul Khanna, Puneet Kaur, M N Singh, A K Sinha
{"title":"Comparative study of the short-range structure of α-V<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub>, α-TeO<sub>2</sub> and xV<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub>-(100 - x)TeO<sub>2</sub> glasses using X-ray diffraction, Rietveld analysis and reverse Monte Carlo simulations.","authors":"Navjot Kaur, Atul Khanna, Puneet Kaur, M N Singh, A K Sinha","doi":"10.1107/S2052520622011581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520622011581","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vanadium-tellurite glasses, tetragonal TeO<sub>2</sub> and orthorhombic V<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> crystalline samples were characterized for their atomic structure properties by synchrotron X-ray diffraction, pair distribution function analysis, reverse Monte Carlo simulations (RMC) and Rietveld analysis. The pair correlation function, G(r), of V<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> shows the first peak at 1.61 Å. G(r) of TeO<sub>2</sub> shows three peaks at 1.57, 2.13 and 2.88 Å due to Te-O linkages of three different lengths, whereas the Te-Te atomic pair correlation shows a peak at 3.85 Å. The average coordination number of V with O in crystalline V<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> is 4.39 while that of Te with O in crystalline TeO<sub>2</sub> is 3.71. G(r) of the vanadium tellurite glass shows the first peak at 1.90 Å due to overlapping Te-O and V-O atomic pair correlations. The RMC analysis on diffraction data of glasses found that the V-O coordination number is in the range 5.27-5.59 and the Te-O coordination number is 5.39-5.67. However, it is found that these coordination numbers cannot be clearly defined due to short-range disorder.</p>","PeriodicalId":7320,"journal":{"name":"Acta crystallographica Section B, Structural science, crystal engineering and materials","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10663479","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}
M Melone, M T Malachevsky, C E Sobrero, H Troiani, A Serquis
{"title":"Effect of nano-SiC doping on the structure and superconducting properties of Mg(B<sub>1-x</sub>C<sub>x</sub>)<sub>2</sub>.","authors":"M Melone, M T Malachevsky, C E Sobrero, H Troiani, A Serquis","doi":"10.1107/S205252062201191X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S205252062201191X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Carbon doping is studied in MgB<sub>2</sub> pellets during one-step synthesis by solid-state reaction, employing both undoped and carbon-doped boron with and without the addition of nano-SiC. The phase formation during the synthesis as a function of time was followed using powder X-ray diffraction and Rietveld refinement. The superconducting properties were characterized with a magnetometer to investigate doping-induced changes. Mg(B<sub>1-x</sub>C<sub>x</sub>)<sub>2</sub> is obtained with nano-precipitates and different compositions depending on the synthesis temperature. It is found that the addition of nano-SiC prevents the phase formation at low temperature (700°C). Nevertheless, the best superconducting properties are obtained for the sample treated at 900°C using simultaneously C and SiC, with a critical current density of 10<sup>5</sup> A cm<sup>-2</sup> at 3 T and 20 K, named the 900-20-C-nanoSiC sample.</p>","PeriodicalId":7320,"journal":{"name":"Acta crystallographica Section B, Structural science, crystal engineering and materials","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10668151","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}
Olga V Yakubovich, Galina V Kiriukhina, Sergey V Simonov, Anatoly S Volkov, Olga V Dimitrova
{"title":"(Na,Li)<sub>3</sub>(Cl,OH)[Cu<sub>3</sub>OAl(PO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub>]: a first salt-inclusion aluminophosphate oxocuprate with a new type of crystal structure.","authors":"Olga V Yakubovich, Galina V Kiriukhina, Sergey V Simonov, Anatoly S Volkov, Olga V Dimitrova","doi":"10.1107/S2052520622011696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520622011696","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The synthesis and characterization of a first salt-inclusion aluminophosphate oxocuprate, (Na,Li)<sub>3</sub>(Cl,OH)[Cu<sub>3</sub>OAl(PO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub>], obtained as single crystals, is reported. A novel phase, with a strongly pseudo-orthorhombic structure, is described as a monoclinic crystal structure established by the study of a pseudomerohedric microtwin. It was investigated using scanning electron microscopy, microprobe analysis and low-temperature X-ray diffraction. The composite crystal structure represents an original framework assembled from Cu-centered polyhedra, AlO<sub>6</sub> octahedra and PO<sub>4</sub> tetrahedra with channels, which incorporate the Na/Li salt component [(Na,Li)<sub>3</sub>(Cl,OH)]<sup>2+</sup> that ensures electroneutrality of the compound. Layers of strongly corrugated chains of Cu-centered octahedra with shared edges and linked by PO<sub>4</sub> tetrahedra are shown to be topologically identical with the layers also built from Cu-centered polyhedra and AsO<sub>4</sub>/VO<sub>4</sub> tetrahedra forming the crystal structure of a fumarolic mineral aleutite, (M<sub>0.5</sub>Cl)[Cu<sub>5</sub>O<sub>2</sub>(AsO<sub>4</sub>)(VO<sub>4</sub>)] [Siidra et al. (2019). MinMag, 83, 847-853]. `Sawtooth chains' and pairs of Cu-centered octahedra inherent in the title structure may be of interest in solid-state physics, engaging studies in the field of low-dimensional and frustrated magnetism.</p>","PeriodicalId":7320,"journal":{"name":"Acta crystallographica Section B, Structural science, crystal engineering and materials","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10663482","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":"Pyrite contact twins.","authors":"Yves Moëlo, Massimo Nespolo, François Farges","doi":"10.1107/S2052520622011714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520622011714","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two examples of contact twins in pyrite from Peru are described. The first one, from Pasto Bueno ore deposit, shows the pyritohedron {120} as principal form, accompanied by the {111} octahedron and {100} cube as secondary forms, giving a lenticular aspect. (111) is the composition plane, and the twin operation is any one of the three binary axes ⟨110⟩ within this plane. The second one (unknown ore deposit) presents two forms, the octahedron {111} and the pyritohedron {120}; the two crystals in the twin are elongated along [101] and [011], respectively, producing a V profile. It is a reflection twin where the twin plane (110) coincides with the composition plane. These twins are by merohedry. Another contact twin is known in the literature, reported by Gaubert [Bull. Soc. Fr. Minéral. Cristallogr. (1928), 51, 211-212] who described it as a spinel twin, i.e. a reflection twin with twin and composition plane (111); here it is shown that it is actually a rotation twin in which the twin operation is a 180° rotation about any of the three equivalent directions ⟨211⟩, contained in the (111) composition plane. The occurrence of these twins as well as the doubtfulness of the spinel twin in pyrite shows a direct relationship with the structural interpretation based on the pseudo-symmetry of the crystallographic orbits.</p>","PeriodicalId":7320,"journal":{"name":"Acta crystallographica Section B, Structural science, crystal engineering and materials","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10663486","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":"Solid-state versatility in tranexamic acid drug: structural and thermal behavior of new salts and cocrystals.","authors":"Sunil Kumar Nechipadappu, Sridhar Balasubramanian","doi":"10.1107/S2052520622011969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520622011969","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tranexamic acid (TNA) is an anti-fibrinolytic hemostatic drug widely used in various medical treatments. Six new salts and five cocrystals of TNA are reported here and the crystal structures of the obtained multicomponent compounds were determined using single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SC-XRD) techniques. TNA formed salts with coformers maleic acid (MEA), nicotinic acid, DL-mandelic acid and saccharin. Salt formation with MEA resulted in three different solid forms, namely TNA-MEA (1:1), TNA-MEA (2:1) and TNA-MEA-H<sub>2</sub>O (1:1:1). All synthesized TNA salt structures were crystallized as anhydrous except for TNA-MEA-H<sub>2</sub>O (1:1:1). TNA formed cocrystals with phenolic coformers such as catechol (CAT), resorcinol, hydroquinone, pyrogallol (PRG) and phloroglucinol. All cocrystal structures crystallized as hydrates except for TNA-PRG (1:1). The detailed structural investigation using SC-XRD revealed the presence of robust N-H...O and O-H...O hydrogen bonds in TNA salts and cocrystals. In TNA cocrystals, except for TNA-CAT-H<sub>2</sub>O (1:1:1), the coformer molecules interact with TNA molecules via bridged water molecules. In all the salt structures, TNA exists as cations, in which both carboxylic and amino groups are protonated (-COOH and -NH<sub>3</sub><sup>+</sup>), while in cocrystals TNA exists as zwitterions with total charge zero. All synthesized multicomponent compounds were further characterized by differential scanning calorimetric, thermogravimetric and Fourier transform infrared analyses, and the formation of new multicomponent compounds were assessed based on the melting temperatures, percentage weight loss and stretching frequencies, respectively, corresponding to TNA/coformer molecules. A powder X-ray diffraction study confirmed the bulk purity of the synthesized crystalline multicomponent compounds.</p>","PeriodicalId":7320,"journal":{"name":"Acta crystallographica Section B, Structural science, crystal engineering and materials","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10668152","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}