Structural Transformations in Crystalline Oligomers of Polyparaphenylene. (Reannouncement with New Availability Information).

摘要

We report the room and low temperature crystal structures of the unsubstituted p-quinquephenyl (PQP) and p-sexiphenyl (PSP), and substituted 2,4-diphenyl-p-quinquephenyl (DPQP), 2,6-diphenyl-p-septiphenyl (DPSP), and 1,2,4-triphenylbenzene (TPB) polyparaphenylene oligomers. The unsubstituted oligomers exhibit a solid state transition when cooled from room temperature to 110K, as indicated by a change in crystallographic space group. No transition is observed for the substituted oligomers other than the usual thermal contraction of the unit cell. The transition observed for the unsubstituted oligomers is interpreted in terms of a conformational change from an averaged planar structure to a static non-planar one. Comparisons of room temperature and low temperature crystal data are presented.