scholarly journals Phase Transitions and Molecular Reorientations in Bilayered n-Heptadecylammonium Chloride

1998 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 557 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. C. Reynhardt

An investigation of phase transitions and molecular motions in polycrystalline n-heptadecylam- monium chloride (C17H35NH3Cl), employing differential scanning calorimetry, x-ray powder diffraction and nuclear magnetic resonance techniques, is reported. This compound can occur in two virgin polymorphs at room temperature, one interdigitated and one noninterdigitated. The temperature at which crystallisation occurs determines the polymorph that forms. If these polymorphs are heated transitions to noninterdigitated γ, β and α phases occur. Cooling to room temperature shows the same phase transitions, but the virgin phase is not formed. Instead, a noninterdigitated .epsi; phase is formed. Defect motions of chain-ends play a significant role in the spin-lattice relaxation rates in all the phases. In the α phase a degree of chain melting is present. The molecular dynamics of chains differs during heating and cooling cycles in the .epsi; phase. If the temperature is kept constant during a heating cycle in this phase, fourfold motions of chains are frozen over a period of several hours, but the sample remains noninterdigitated. It seems that the interdigitation process is hampered by the population of defect orientations of chain-ends. The methyl group executes classical threefold reorientations and the NH3 group jumps in an asymmetric threefold potential well.

1996 ◽  
Vol 51 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 755-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiromitsu Terao ◽  
Tsutomu Okuda ◽  
Koji Yamada ◽  
Hideta Ishihara ◽  
Alarich Weiss

NQR and DTA revealed phase transitions in [(CH3)4N] 2HgBr4 and [(CH3)4N] 2HgI4 at 272 K and 264 K, respectively. The NQR resonance lines faded out with increasing temperature. From preliminary measurements of 81Br NQR spin-lattice relaxation times and 199Hg NMR a reorientational motion of HgBr4 ions around one of their pseudo C3 axes in the room temperature phase of [(CH3)4N] 2HgBr4 is suggested.


1989 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yutaka Tai ◽  
Tetsuo Asaji ◽  
Ryuichi Ikeda ◽  
Daiyu Nakamura

Abstract The 1H NMR second moment M2 and the spin-lattice relaxation time T1 are determined for pyridinium hexachlorotellurate(IV), hexachlorostannate(IV), and hexabromostannate(IV) at various temperatures above ca. 140 K. The phase transition temperatures already reported from halogen NQR experiments are determined as 272, 331, and 285 K, respectively, by differential thermal analysis (DTA). The DTA as well as differential scanning calorimetry measurements show that the above phase transitions are of second-order. For pyridinium hexachlorotellurate(IV) and hexa-bromostannate(I V), a sharp 1H T1 dip was observed at the transition temperature. This is interpreted in terms of a phenomenon related to the critical fluctuation of an order parameter. From the measurements of 1H M2, 60° two-site jumps (60° flips) around the pseudo C6 axis of the cation are suggested to occur in the high temperature phases of the complexes. Modulation of X...1H (X = CI, Br) magnetic dipolar interactions due to the reorientational motion of the complex anions is considered as a possible relaxation mechanism in the high temperature phases.


1990 ◽  
Vol 45 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 1190-1192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Ishida ◽  
Kentaro Takagi ◽  
Mifune Terashima ◽  
Daiyu Nakamura

Abstract The 1H spin-lattice relaxation time, linewidth, second moment of 1H NMR absorption, differen-tial thermal analysis, and differential scanning calorimetry of methylammonium tetrabromocado-mate(II) crystals were studied. A new solid phase was found between 482 K and the melting point (493 K). The 1H NMR measurements revealed the presence of overall reorientation of methyl-ammonium cations in this phase. In the room temperature phase, 120° reorientational jumps of the CH3 and NH3+ groups were detected.


1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (21) ◽  
pp. 3453-3457 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Ripmeester

The solid pyridinium chloride, bromide, and iodide salts were studied using 1H nuclear magnetic resonance and differential scanning calorimetry. Phase transitions were observed at 345 K for the chloride, 269 K for the bromide, and 247 K for the iodide. Well below each transition, the pyridinium ions are held rigidly in the crystal lattice, whereas above each transition the ions reorientate rapidly about an axis at right angles to the ring planes. From the temperature dependence of the spin–lattice relaxation times the high temperature phase reorientational activation energies were determined to be 1.55, 2.30, and 4.20 kcal/mol for the chloride, bromide, and iodide, respectively.


1986 ◽  
Vol 41 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 311-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. M. Seo ◽  
J. Pelzl ◽  
C. Dimitropoulos

The 35Cl NQR frequency and spin-lattice relaxation rate in the compounds A2PbCl6 (A = Cs, Rb, NH4, K) have been investigated in the range 4.2 K to 500 K, and as a function of pressure at room temperature. NQR experiments conducted on (K: NH4)2PbCl6 mixed crystals have been used to complete the NQR-frequency versus temperature diagram of K2PbCl6, revealing two structural transitions at Tc1 ≅ 358 K and at TC2 ≅ 333 K.


1975 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 571-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Winscom

Abstract The behaviour of spin sublevel populations with time following periodic photo-excitation is ex-amined. The treatment is limited to conditions of magnetic field strength and temperature for which the spin lattice relaxation rates dominate the individual spin sublevel decay rates. The response of the system to three modes of excitation is considered: (i) continuous excitation using a time-independent intensity (ii) periodic rectangular pulse excitation and (iii) periodic waveform excitation. A convenient correspondence between the various forms of solutions is pointed out. The requirements of an experiment to determine spin-lattice relaxation rates in organic triplets at 77 K are discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander V. Skripov ◽  
Olga A. Babanova ◽  
Roman V. Skoryunov ◽  
Alexei V. Soloninin ◽  
Terrence J. Udovic

Abstract Polyhydroborate-based salts of lithium and sodium have attracted much recent interest as promising solid-state electrolytes for energy-related applications. A member of this family, sodium dicarba-nido-undecahydroborate Na-7,9-C2B9H12 exhibits superionic conductivity above its order-disorder phase transition temperature, ∼360 K. To investigate the dynamics of the anions and cations in this compound at the microscopic level, we have measured the 1H and 23Na nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra and spin-lattice relaxation rates over the temperature range of 148–384 K. It has been found that the transition from the low-T ordered to the high-T disordered phase is accompanied by an abrupt, several-orders-of-magnitude acceleration of both the reorientational jump rate of the complex anions and the diffusive jump rate of Na+ cations. These results support the idea that reorientations of large [C2B9H12]− anions can facilitate cation diffusion and, thus, the ionic conductivity. The apparent activation energies for anion reorientations obtained from the 1H spin-lattice relaxation data are 314 meV for the ordered phase and 272 meV for the disordered phase. The activation energies for Na+ diffusive jumps derived from the 23Na spin-lattice relaxation data are 350 and 268 meV for the ordered and disordered phases, respectively.


1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (19) ◽  
pp. 2016-2023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence D. Colebrook ◽  
Laurance D. Hall

A general discussion is given of the determination of the proton spin–lattice relaxation rates of natural products, with particular emphasis on use of the null-point method which, for the systems studied here, gives identical results with those obtained via the conventional (and relatively time consuming) computational method.


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