How to circumvent plastic phases: the single crystal X-ray analysis of norbornadiene

Abstract

The single crystal structure of the ordered phase of norbornadiene was determined using a new method of growing crystals at low temperatures, via an in situ technique utilising IR light from a CO₂ laser focused on a capillary filled with an organic solution of a sample that usually forms plastic crystals.

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