Orientational and conformational disorder in a halogen-ethane compound

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The translational and orientational disorder of some liquids can be frozen if they are cooled down quick enough, giving rise to a Structural Glass (SG). But for some molecular compounds molecules displaying pseudo-globular shape can rotate around the equilibrium positions of a crystalline lattice, the quenching can lead to the so called Orientational Glass (OG), in which the orientational disorder is frozen while the long-range translational order still persists. That is the case of some simple halogen-ethane compounds. In addition, the existence of conformational disorder (trans and gauche conformers) which can hybridize with sound modes in both the OG and the ordered low-temperature phases makes relevant the study of the anomalous enhanced vibrational density of states in the low-frequency spectral range over the predicted one by Debye for the low-temperature ordered solid phase.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.82354160
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/82354160
Provenance
Creator Dr Tatiana Guidi; Mr Jonathan Gebbia; Professor Javier Bermejo; Dr Luis Carlos Pardo-Soto; Dr Jose Luis Tamarit
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-10-13T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-10-15T07:00:00Z