Ab initio structure determination of the high-temperature phase of anhydrous caffeine by X-ray powder diffraction.
The high-temperature phase I of anhydrous caffeine was obtained by heating and annealing the purified commercial form II at 450 K. This phase I can be maintained at low temperature in a metastable state. A powder X-ray diffraction pattern was recorded at 278 K with a laboratory diffractometer equipped with an INEL curved position-sensitive detector CPS120. Phase I is dynamically orientationally disordered (the so-called plastic phase). The Rietveld refinements were achieved with rigid-body constraints. It was assumed that on each site, a molecule can adopt three preferential orientations with equal occupation probability. Under a deep undercooling of phase I, below 250 K, the metastable state enters in a glassy crystal state.
Derollez
Patrick
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Laboratoire de Dynamique et Structure des Matériaux Moléculaires (UMR CNRS 8024), UFR de Physique, Bâtiment P5, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq CEDEX, France. patrick.derollez@univ-lille1.fr
Correia
Natália T
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Danède
Florence
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Capet
Frédéric
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Affouard
Frédéric
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Lefebvre
Jacques
J
Descamps
Marc
M
D002110:Caffeine / Q000737:chemistry*; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D033362:Powder Diffraction; D013696:Temperature; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
D002110:Caffeine