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Fabrication and Optimization of Type II Silicon Clathrate Films
Published on: October 14, 2025
Two reversible enantiotropic phase transitions in a pentacoordinate silicon complex with an O,N,O'-tridentate
Anke Schwarzer1, Sabine Fels2, Uwe Böhme2
1Institut für Organische Chemie, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Leipziger Strasse 29, 09599 Freiberg, Germany.
Abstract:
Dimethyl[N-(4-oxidopent-3-en-2-ylidene)valinato-κ(3)O,N,O']silicon(IV), C12H21NO3Si, (II), crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group P2₁2₁2₁. The chiral compound undergoes two sharp enantiotropic phase transitions upon cooling. The first transformation occurs at 163 K to yield a unit cell with one axis having double length. This intermediate-temperature form has the monoclinic space group P2₁. The second transition takes place at 142 K and converts the single crystal into the low-temperature form in the orthorhombic space group P2₁2₁2₁. This transition proceeds under tripling of the a axis of the high-temperature form. Both phase transitions are fully reversible and correspond to order-disorder transitions of the isopropyl group of the valine unit in the ligand backbone. The phase transitions presented here raise questions, since they do not fit into the rules of group-subgroup relationships.
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