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Ghosh, Soumyajit; Mishra, Manish Kumar; Ganguly, Somnath; Desiraju, Gautam R
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 08/2015, Volume: 137, Issue: 31Journal Article
An elastic organic crystal, 2,6-dichlorobenzylidine-4-fluoro-3-nitroaniline (DFNA), which also shows thermosalient behavior, is studied. The presence of these two distinct properties in the same crystal is unusual and unprecedented because they follow respectively from isotropy and anisotropy in the crystal packing. Therefore, while both properties lead from the crystal structure, the mechanisms for bending and thermosalience are quite independent of one another. Crystals of the low-temperature (α) form of the title compound are bent easily without any signs of fracture with the application of deforming stress, and this bending is within the elastic limit. The crystal structure of the α-form was determined (P21/c, Z = 4, a = 3.927(7) Å, b = 21.98(4) Å, c = 15.32(3) Å). There is an irreversible phase transition at 138 °C of this form to the high-temperature β-form followed by melting at 140 °C. Variable-temperature X-ray powder diffraction was used to investigate the structural changes across the phase transition and, along with an FTIR study, establishes the structure of the β-form. A possible rationale for strain build-up is given. Thermosalient behavior arises from anisotropic changes in the three unit cell parameters across the phase transition, notably an increase in the b axis parameter from 21.98 to 22.30 Å. A rationale is provided for the existence of both elasticity and thermosalience in the same crystal. FTIR studies across the phase transition reveal important mechanistic insights: (i) increased π···π repulsions along 100 lead to expansion along the a axis; (ii) change in alignment of C–Cl and NO2 groups result from density changes; and (iii) competition between short-range repulsive (π···π) interactions and long-range attractive dipolar interactions (C–Cl and NO2) could lie at the origin of the existence of two distinctive properties.
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