Temperature-Dependent Structural Changes in Liquid Benzene

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The non-covalent interactions between aromatic rings are of fundamental importance in large number biological and chemical processes. The local structure of aromatic liquids is a delicate balance between dispersion attraction and electrostatic forces due to the uneven distribution of charge over the molecules. Benzene, as the archetypal aromatic, is one of the most studied room temperature molecular liquids, probably second only to water. A detailed and reliable knowledge of its intermolecular structure in the liquid state is vital to many fields of chemistry where the use of aromatics as functional groups and solvents is ubiquitous. A recent study has shown that the parallel stacking of molecules in liquid benzene increases with increasing temperature. Here we will use neutron diffraction on SANDALS to study this effect in greater detail.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.98858873
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/98858873
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Creator Dr Tom Headen
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-10-08T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-10-15T08:52:55Z