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Crystals, Volume 5, Issue 4

2015 December - 17 articles

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Articles (17)

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,518 Views
20 Pages

4 December 2015

Salts of the antiviral drug arbidol (umifenovir) (Arb) with maleate (Mlc) and fumarate (Fum) anions have been obtained, and their crystal structures have been described. The crystal structure of arbidol maleate has been redetermined by single crystal...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,266 Views
16 Pages

A New Method for the Synthesis of Heterospin Complexes

  • Victor Ovcharenko,
  • Olga Kuznetsova,
  • Elena Fursova,
  • Gаlinа Romаnenko and
  • Artem Bogomyakov

2 December 2015

The interaction of binuclear Co(II) pivalate [Сo2(H2O)Piv4(HPiv)4] with nitronyl nitroxide HL1 (2-(2-hydroxy-5-nitrophenyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazole-3-oxide-1-oxyl) in organic solvents led to the formation of a pentanuclear hetero...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,908 Views
9 Pages

25 November 2015

A new 1D chained coordination polymer of Zn(II), {[Zn(L)2(4,4′-bipy)]·(H2O)}n(1) (HL = N-acetyl-l-phenylalanine; 4,4′-bipy = 4,4′-bipyridine) has been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, IR and X-ray single crystal diffraction analys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,410 Views
17 Pages

25 November 2015

The storage of hydrogen is considered as the bottleneck in the implementation of portable fuel cell power generating systems. The necessary experimental studies to discover and develop appropriate storage materials are always time-limited. We discuss...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,747 Views
16 Pages

24 November 2015

The initial austenite grain size of boron microalloyed steel with three different amounts of boron (20, 40, and 60 ppm) was investigated under different heating temperatures (1150, 1100, and 1050 °C), and hot compression tests of samples in a wide ra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,201 Views
21 Pages

19 November 2015

The enthalpies of formation of transition metals diborides in various structures have been obtained from density functional theory (DFT) calculations in order to determine the ground state at T = 0 K and p = 0. The evolution of the enthalpies of form...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,045 Views
9 Pages

19 November 2015

Liquid-assisted grinding was employed to generate a cocrystal of adefovir dipivoxil (AD) and glutaric acid (GLU), which had not been successfully obtained through solution crystallization. The cocrystal formation was confirmed with powder X-ray diff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,466 Views
11 Pages

Quantitative Evaluation of Photoinduced Bending Speed of Diarylethene Crystals

  • Daichi Kitagawa,
  • Chika Iwaihara,
  • Hiroyasu Nishi and
  • Seiya Kobatake

6 November 2015

We investigated photoinduced crystal bending behavior of various photochromic diarylethenes. In all the diarylethene derivatives we used in this work, the relationship between the initial photoinduced bending speed and the crystal thickness was well...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,955 Views
10 Pages

Synthesis, Crystal Structure and DFT Studies of 8-chloro-3-((3-chlorobenzyl)thio)-[1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a]pyridine

  • Jin-Xia Mu,
  • Ming-Yan Yang,
  • Zhao-Hui Sun,
  • Cheng-Xia Tan,
  • Jian-Quan Weng,
  • Hong-Ke Wu and
  • Xing-Hai Liu

2 November 2015

8-chloro-3-((3-chlorobenzyl)thio)-[1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a]pyridine was synthesized and recrystallized from EtOH. The compound was characterized by 1H NMR, 13C NMR, FTIR, MS, elemental analysis and X-ray diffraction. The compound was crystallized in th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
152 Citations
18,251 Views
33 Pages

2 November 2015

The presence of ions in liquid crystals is one of the grand challenges that hinder the application of liquid crystals in various devices, which include advanced 3-D and flexible displays, tunable lenses, etc. Not only do they compromise the overall p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,816 Views
17 Pages

2 November 2015

In this study, the production of particulate films of iodine (V) oxides is investigated. The influence that sonication and solvation of suspended particles in various alcohol/ketone/ester solvents have on the physical structure of spin or drop cast f...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,399 Views
16 Pages

20 October 2015

Various kinds of roles of the water molecules in the electronic states of the complexes of metal ions (M) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) are reviewed. Divalent metal ions M like Fe, Mn, Zn and so on, form Metal-DNA complexes (M-DNA) with each metal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,911 Views
9 Pages

Synthesis and Molecular Structures of (E)-non-2-enoic Acid and (E)-dec-2-enoic Acid

  • Marcel Sonneck,
  • Tim Peppel,
  • Anke Spannenberg and
  • Sebastian Wohlrab

16 October 2015

The molecular structures of (E)-non-2-enoic acid (C9) and (E)-dec-2-enoic acid (C10) are reported. The title compounds were crystallized by slow evaporation of ethanolic solutions at −30 °C. C9 crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P21/c and C10...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,993 Views
8 Pages

15 October 2015

A new Ca(II) coordination polymer, [{CaL2·(H2O)2·2H2O}]n (1) (L = 2-[(E)-(2-furoylhydrazono)methyl]benzenesulfonate), has been obtained by one-pot method, and characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectrum, and X-ray single-crystal diffraction. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,121 Views
11 Pages

8 October 2015

Laser post-heating computer controlled detonation spraying (CCDS) and cold spray (CS) hybrid processes were proposed for fabrication of near sub micron structure coatings of hydroxyapatite (HA) + Ti system. Optical and SEM with energy dispersive X-ra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,563 Views
15 Pages

Crystal Structures of Furazanes

  • Thomas M. Klapötke,
  • Philipp C. Schmid and
  • Jörg Stierstorfer

24 September 2015

Several nitrogen-rich salts of 3-nitramino-4-nitrofurazane and dinitraminoazoxyfurazane were synthesized and characterized by various spectroscopic methods. The crystal structures were determined by low temperature single crystal X-ray diffraction. M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,377 Views
14 Pages

24 September 2015

The new ternary arsenides AE3TrAs3 (AE = Sr, Ba; Tr = Al, Ga) and their phosphide analogs Sr3GaP3 and Ba3AlP3 have been prepared by reactions of the respective elements at high temperatures. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies reveal that Sr3AlA...

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