Ellie Louvain Smith, Joe Ridout, Jonathan David Sellars and Michael Richard Probert
CrystEngComm, 2019,21, 4422-4426
DOI:
10.1039/C9CE00870E,
Communication
Single crystal X-ray diffraction has been used to uncover a new polymorph of anisole, C7H8O, at elevated pressure. Structural comparisons have been made to the known, low temperature form which has also been re-investigated. Both polymorphs crystallise in the monoclinic space group P21/c with the new high-pressure polymorph exhibiting a much greater packing efficiency than the low-temperature form, enabled by significantly different intermolecular interactions.