Static disorder in crystals of the anthracene–tetracyanobenzene charge transfer complex

Abstract
Crystals of anthracene TCNB are disordered at room temperature and undergo an order–disorder phase transformation on cooling. Calculation of the appropriate maps of potential energy environment as a function of concerted anthracene ring rotation, and subsequent rigid body refinement with published data for the room temperature crystal, showed that anthracene TCNB is statically disordered. Anthracene randomly occupies two positions at ±6° away from the crystallographic mirror plane. The disordered model converged at R=0.058 in the space group C2/m.

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