The results of differential scanning calorimetry studies on caged hydrocarbons have been used, with existing data, to propose a new interpretation of orientational disorder in plastic crystals. New empirical relationships are reported between the entropy of transition, plastic crystal range and molecular shape.
T. Clark, M. A. McKervey, H. Mackle and J. J. Rooney, J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 1, 1974, 70, 1279 DOI: 10.1039/F19747001279
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