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1Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań (Poland). masza@amu.edu.pl.
Chemistry, an Asian Journal
|September 11, 2014
Abstract:
The transition mechanism revised: The transition in diglycine methanesulfonate at 133 K has an order-disorder character. It has been evidenced that the previously postulated by Zhou and coworkers (Chem. Asian J.- 2014, 9, 996-1000) displacive mechanism of this transition is a simple consequence of the improper analysis of the X-ray diffraction and calorimetric experimental data.
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