Monotropic Character of Polymorphism in Pentachloropyridine Crystal Studied by Calorimetric and Spectroscopic Methods |
| G. Wójcik Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University of Wrocław, Wyb. Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland J. Giermańsκa-Kahn CNRS, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, 33-600 Pessac, France Y. Marqueton Group of Condensed Matter and Materials, University of Rennes I, 35-042 Rennes, France and M. Foulon Laboratory of Dynamics and Structure of Molecular Materials, University of Lille I, 59-655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France |
| Received: March 13, 1995; in final form: May 25, 1995 |
| Dedicated to Professors Krzyszof Pigoń, Józef W. Rohleder and Zdzisław Ruziewicz on the occasion of their 70th birthdays |
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| Pentachloropyridine crystals in two polymorphic modifications: tetragonal and monoclinic were studied by differential scanning calorimetry and polarized IR and Raman spectroscopy in 20 to 200 cm-1 region and at different temperatures from melting point down to the liquid nitrogen temperature. The 4 K difference in melting points of both forms indicates the occurrence of monotropy. The spectra were discussed in terms of positional disorder in the studied crystals which often happen to be mixtures of the monoclinic crystal and the L- and D-forms of the tetragonal one. The monotropic transition of the metastable tetragonal crystal into the stable monoclinic one was observed in the Raman spectra and under the polarizing microscope at temperatures ranging from 170 to 185 K and as an anomaly on the differential scanning calorymetry diagram at 193 K. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.88.339 PACS numbers: 64.70.Kb, 78.30.-j |