Host-guest hydrogen bonding in high-pressure clathrates

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Clathrate hydrates are crystalline compounds consisting of hydrogen-bonded water molecules configured into cages enclosing guest molecules that are typically non-polar. Studies of the last decades evidence that polar molecules may nonetheless be enclathrated, producing stable solid phases in the presence of clathrate promoters, with the formation of guest-host hydrogen bonds. So far, this phenomenon has been studied only for the common sI, sII, and sH binary clathrates while host-guest hydrogen bonding in HP dense clathrates have not been addressed. Recently, we have synthesised at HP-LT conditions several dense acetone clathrates featuring hydrogen bonging between oxygen of the acetone molecule and a framework oxygen. Here we propose to further investigate high-pressure clathrates with different polar guest molecules by means of in situ SCXRD in order to address the effect of host-guest hydrogen bonding on clathrates thermodynamic stability, compressibility, and thermal expansion.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15151/ESRF-ES-850803816
Metadata Access https://icatplus.esrf.fr/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatplus.esrf.fr:inv/850803816
Provenance
Creator Baptiste JOURNAUX ORCID logo; Tiziana BOFFA BALLARAN ORCID logo; Alexander KURNOSOV; Anna PAKHOMOVA; Michael HANFLAND
Publisher ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)
Publication Year 2025
Rights CC-BY-4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Resource Type Data from large facility measurement; Collection
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields