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Kinga Roszak1, Andrzej Katrusiak1
1Deparment of Material Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, Poznań, 61-614, Poland.
Abstract:
Ambient-pressure trigonal phase α of selenourea SeC(NH2)2 is noncentrosymmetric, with high Z' = 9. Under high pressure it undergoes several intriguing transformations, depending on the pressure-transmitting medium and the compression or recrystallization process. In glycerine or oil, α-SeC(NH2)2 transforms into phase β at 0.21 GPa; however in water, phase α initially increases its volume and can be compressed to 0.30 GPa due to the formation of α-SeC(NH2)2·xH2O. The single crystals of α-SeC(NH2)2 and of its partial hydrate α-SeC(NH2)2·xH2O are shattered by pressure-induced transitions. Single crystals of phase β-SeC(NH2)2 were in situ grown in a diamond-anvil cell and studied by X-ray diffraction. The monoclinic phase β is centrosymmetric, with Z' = 2. It is stable to 3.20 GPa at least, but it cannot be recovered at ambient conditions due to strongly strained NH...Se hydrogen bonds. No hydrogen-bonding motifs present in the urea structures have been found in selenourea phases α and β.
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