Croatica Chemica Acta, Vol. 91 No. 2, 2018.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5562/cca3362
Order-Disorder in Diaquobis(salicylato)copper(II) Revisited
Martin Lutz
; Crystal and Structural Chemistry, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
Loes M. J. Kroon-Batenburg
orcid.org/0000-0002-5321-1392
; Crystal and Structural Chemistry, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
Abstract
We re-investigated the crystal structure of diaquobis(salicylato)copper(II), CuSal, which is an OD material with disordered layer stacking. The diffraction pattern consists of sharp Bragg spots and diffuse streaks.
From the Bragg reflections we determined the ordered part of the structure, which can either be described by an orthorhombic or a twinned monoclinic lattice. The main motif of the structure consists of one-dimensional coordination polymers that are connected by hydrogen bonds into two-dimensional layers.
The layer stacking is disordered and from simulations with a Markovian growth models we could fully explain the diffuse streaks of the current structure when the layers are stacked randomly.
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Keywords
diffuse scattering; OD structure; hydrogen-bonded layers; copper complex
Hrčak ID:
203021
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Publication date:
4.6.2018.
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