The structures and phase transitions in 4-aminopyridinium tetraaquabis(sulfato)iron(III), (C5H7N2)[FeIII(H2O)4(SO4)2]

Autor: Michal Dušek, Vasyl Kinzhybalo, Wolfgang Hornfeck, Tamara J. Bednarchuk, Zhengyang Zhou, Adam Pietraszko
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials. 75:1144-1151
ISSN: 2052-5206
DOI: 10.1107/s2052520619013155
Popis: The organic–inorganic hybrid compound 4-aminopyridinium tetraaquabis(sulfato)iron(III), (C5H7N2)[FeIII(H2O)4(SO4)2] (4apFeS), was obtained by slow evaporation of the solvent at room temperature and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction in the temperature range from 290 to 80 K. Differential scanning calorimetry revealed that the title compound undergoes a sequence of three reversible phase transitions, which has been verified by variable-temperature X-ray diffraction analysis during cooling–heating cycles over the temperature ranges 290–100–290 K. In the room-temperature phase (I), space groupC2/c, oxygen atoms from the closest Fe-atom environment (octahedral) were disordered over two equivalent positions around a twofold axis. Two intermediate phases (II), (III) were solved and refined as incommensurately modulated structures, employing the superspace formalism applied to single-crystal X-ray diffraction data. Both structures can be described in the (3+1)-dimensional monoclinicX2/c(α,0,γ)0ssuperspace group (whereXis ½, ½, 0, ½) with modulation wavevectorsq= (0.2943, 0, 0.5640) andq= (0.3366, 0, 0.5544) for phases (II) and (III), respectively. The completely ordered low-temperature phase (IV) was refined with the twinning model in the triclinicP{\overline 1} space group, revealing the existence of two domains. The dynamics of the disordered anionic substructure in the 4apFeS crystal seems to play an essential role in the phase transition mechanisms. The discrete organic moieties were found to be fully ordered even at room temperature.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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