Towards a temperature-guided molecular switch: an unusual reversible low-temperature polymorphic phase transition in a conformationally locked environment.

نویسندگان

  • Goverdhan Mehta
  • Saikat Sen
چکیده

A conformationally locked tetraacetate undergoes, quite akin to a temperature-guided molecular switch, a reversible thermal switching between two polymorphic modifications; the room-temperature alpha-form converted at -4 degrees C to a low-temperature denser beta-form, which displayed an unusual kinetic stability till 67 degrees C and transformed back to the alpha-form beyond this temperature.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Chemical communications

دوره 40  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009