Molecular mobility, phase transitions and phase transformations in crystalline ortho- and meta-carboranes
Molecular mobility, phase transitions and phase transformations in crystalline ortho- and meta-carboranes
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晶体邻碳硼烷和间碳硼烷的分子迁移率、相变和相变
DOI:
10.1016/j.jpcs.2004.11.001
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发表时间:
2005
影响因子:
4
通讯作者:
J. Ramos
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作者:
H. Diogo;N. T. Correia;J. Ramos
The thermally stimulated depolarisation currents (TSDC) technique was used to study the slow molecular mobility in the crystalline forms of highly symmetric polar isomers of carborane. As a consequence of the high molecular symmetry, that originates a molecular shape with a high degree of globularity, plastic crystalline phases with relatively fast reorientational mobility are expected. The TSDC results showed that there is an orientational glass transformation in phase III of ortho-carborane but not in meta-carborane, reinforcing the conclusions of the calorimetric study that suggests that phase III of m-carborane is an orientationally ordered phase. Furthermore, a slow molecular mobility is detected by TSDC in phase II of o-carborane, some degrees below the II→I transition temperature. The mobility in phase II of m-carborane is too fast to be probed by TSDC. It is suggested that the difference in the dynamic behaviour of the two isomers probably arises from their different polarity.