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Elżbieta Szostak1, Anna Migdał-Mikuli, Agnieszka Kaczor
1Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Physics, No. 3, Ingardena Street, 30-060 Kraków, Poland. szostak@chemia.uj.edu.pl
Abstract:
Single crystal X-ray diffraction studies of [Mn(OS(CH3)2)6](ClO4)2 have shown that the low temperature phase transition, detected by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at about 223 K, is associated with the crystal symmetry's reduction from an orthorhombic crystallographic system (Fdd2, No. 43) to a monoclinic one (Cc, No. 9). The analysis of the full width at half maximum of the bands connected with: δd(OClO)F2 and ρ(CH3) vibrational modes in the FT-IR and FT-RS spectra, respectively, registered in the function of temperature, proved that the reorientational motions of ClO4- anions and CH3 groups from (CH3)2SO ligands, began to slow down at temperatures below the phase transition at about 223K. Mean values of activation energy for ClO4- reorientation in the high temperature phase I and low temperature phase II are: Ea(I)≈14 kJ mol(-1) and Ea(II)≈10 kJ mol(-1), respectively. Analogous values for CH3 reorientation are: Ea(I)≈23 kJ mol(-1) and Ea(II)≈1 kJ mol(-1), respectively.
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