High-Pressure Structural Behaviour of 2,2,2-trifluoro-ethanol

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In the mono-alcohols (ROH) there is a competition between the packing requirements of the R-group and for the hydroxyl groups to be sufficiently close for hydrogen bonding to occur. The packing motifs can be chains, or catemers, if the R-group is sufficiently small. For bulkier R-groups the molecules may no longer form hydrogen bonded catemers but cyclic rings can be created. We have been studying a series of R-OH systems at pressure and we have recently found a previously unobserved structure of 2,2,2-trifluoro-ethanol (phase-II) where the R-groups are small enough to allow catemer formation. We have studied this high-pressure structure on PEARL (RB1820042) and discovered a second high-pressure structure (phase-III) at a slightly elevated pressure. We now seek time to to gain more detail of the phase-II to III transition and accurately pinpoint the onset of freezing at room temperature.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1910318-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/103215805
Provenance
Creator Dr Craig Bull; Dr Ivan da Silva Gonzalez; Dr David Allan; Dr Sarah Barnett
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
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 Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-06-17T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-06-19T07:10:57Z