Joana F. C. Silva, Mário T. S. Rosado, Małgorzata Jasiurkowska-Delaporte
Sep 30, 2019
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Crystal Growth & Design
Abstract
Plastic crystals, frequently observed for compounds with globular molecules, are mesophases characterized by orientational disorder maintaining positional order. The present work focuses on finding correlations between the plastic crystal formation ability of pinanediol, its molecular shape, and the intermolecular interactions existing in solid phases. Pinanediol, a bicyclical monoterpenoid and vicinal diol, is a globular molecule capable of forming intermolecular hydrogen bonds. In the present work, the structure and thermal behavior of this compound in the solid state is studied for the first time. Despite its strong intermolecular interactions in condensed phases, it was found to be a plastic crystal former showing complex polymorphism. Three ordered phases were identified by differential scanning calorimetry, polarized light thermal microscopy, and X-ray diffraction with variable temperature. The molecular dynamics in different polymorphic forms was studied by broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS). ...