The Effect of Pressure on the Crystal Structure of Serine Hydrate

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Serine monohydrate undergoes a phase transition at 5.2 GPa which involves reorientation of water molecules. It appears that this disrupts H-bonding elsewhere in the crystal, leaving two strong H-bond donors to make only 'poor' H-bonds. This time is requested with the aim of determining the positions of the H-atoms in the structure. Previous work on PEARL using the Paris-Edinburgh cell indicates that it is an ideal instrument for the study of small molecular systems at pressures less than 10 GPa. A single run from ambient pressure up to 8 GPa in 1 GPa steps with a Pb pressure-marker and MeOD/EtOD as a hydrostatic medium will provide data suitable for analysis of the H-atom positions, and confirm the phase behaviour beyond the regime sampled in the single crystal experiments. We anticipate the need for 4 days of beamtime for this study.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24003267
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24003267
Provenance
Creator Mr Russell Johnstone; Professor Simon Parsons; Dr Bill Marshall; Dr Stephen Moggach
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2010
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2007-12-03T09:00:50Z
Temporal Coverage End 2007-12-06T23:30:05Z