Copy of: The Effect of Pressure on the Crystal Structure Titanium Tetrachloride

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At ambient pressure and temperature TiCl4 is a fuming yellow liquid. On cooling it forma a solid composed of essentially isolated tetrahedral molecules; the same structure is formed on solidification at 0.5 kbar. Raman spectra show that this structure transforms to a new phase at 12 kbar in which Ti atoms are bridged by chloride. Synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction suggests that the new phase is isostructural with ZrCl4, but the data are very broad and poorly powder averaged. We have seen in other work that whereas X-ray powder patterns collected on soft solids at high pressure are often so poorly averaged that they are not suitable for structure analysis, neutron data collected on PEARL with a larger sample volume are suitable not only for refinement, but also structure solution. We therefore request 6 days on PEARL to characterize the high pressure phase of TiCl4 more definitively.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24003290
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24003290
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Creator Professor Simon Parsons; Dr Bill Marshall
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2010
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2007-12-11T09:04:34Z
Temporal Coverage End 2007-12-15T09:03:09Z