Cockcroft, JK;
Li, JGY;
Williams, JH;
(2019)
Influence of methyl-substitution on the dynamics of the C–H⋯F–C interaction in binary adducts.
CrystEngComm
10.1039/c9ce00541b.
(In press).
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Abstract
Variable-temperature single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) has been used to probe the structure and dynamics of two solid adducts, viz. toluene : hexafluorobenzene (C6H5CH3 : C6F6) and p-xylene (1,4-dimethyl benzene) : hexafluorobenzene (p-C6H4(CH3)2 : C6F6). A combination of PXRD patterns and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) traces of the solid adducts reveal two solid-state phase-transitions in each adduct: at 200 K and 246 K in C6H5CH3 : C6F6 and at 230 K and 297 K in p-C6H4(CH3)2 : C6F6. The crystal structures of all three solid phases in each adduct have been solved by single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SXD). The structures of both adducts are based on close-packed parallel columns of alternating methyl benzenes and hexafluorobenzene molecules packed face to face. The fundamental difference between the two adducts involves the presence or absence of rotational disorder of the methyl-substituted benzene rings. Whereas in p-xylene the presence of two methyl groups locks the orientation of the molecule with respect to the column axis in all phases, the single methyl group of toluene fails to define a unique orientation except in the lowest temperature phase III. At higher temperatures, C6H5CH3 : C6F6 transforms to an adduct with, initially, two-fold disorder (in phase II) and then dynamic six-fold disorder that dominates the highest temperature phase (phase I). Differences in structure between the phases as a function of temperature illustrate the subtle interplay of quadrupole versus bond–dipole electrostatic interactions.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Influence of methyl-substitution on the dynamics of the C–H⋯F–C interaction in binary adducts |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c9ce00541b |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1039/c9ce00541b |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082066 |
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