Low-temperature structure of solid C70

van Smaalen, Sander; Petricek, Vaclav; de Boer, Jan L.; Dusek, Michal; Verheijen, Marcel A.; Meijer, Gerard

doi:10.1016/0009-2614(94)00450-1

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Low-temperature structure of solid C₇₀

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van Smaalen, S., Petricek, V., de Boer, J. L., Dusek, M., Verheijen, M. A., & Meijer, G. (1994). Low-temperature structure of solid C₇₀. Chemical Physics Letters, 223(4), 323-328. doi:10.1016/0009-2614(94)00450-1.

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The structure of the low-temperature phase of hexagonal close-packed (hcp) grown C₇₀ is determined from single-crystal X-ray diffraction at 220 K and 100 K. An ordering of the molecules is found on the orthohexagonal supercell of a hcp structure with symmetry Pbnm. It involves alignment of the molecules with their long axis parallel to the original hexagonal axis, and a shift out of the original hcp positions. Intermolecular contacts are shown to be different from those found in C₆₀. The crystal is determined to contain stacking faults resulting in the presence of AC and BC deformed hcp arrangements in addition to the original AB stacking. The stacking disorder is shown to be independent of the phase transitions, and presumably is an intrinsic property of hexagonal C₇₀ crystals.