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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
Pt 2
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-3-22
pubmed:abstractText
No crystal structure at ambient pressure is known for tetramethylsilane, Si(CH(3))(4), which is used as a standard in NMR spectroscopy. Possible crystal structures were predicted by global lattice-energy minimizations using force-field methods. The lowest-energy structure corresponds to the high-pressure room-temperature phase (Pa3, Z = 8). Low-temperature crystallization at 100 K resulted in a single crystal, and its crystal structure has been determined. The structure corresponds to the predicted structure with the second lowest energy rank. In X-ray powder analyses this is the only observed phase between 80 and 159 K. For tetramethylgermane, Ge(CH(3))(4), no experimental crystal structure is known. Global lattice-energy minimizations resulted in 47 possible crystal structures within an energy range of 5 kJ mol(-1). The lowest-energy structure was found in Pa3, Z = 8.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1600-5740
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
66
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
229-36
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Predicted crystal structures of tetramethylsilane and tetramethylgermane and an experimental low-temperature structure of tetramethylsilane.
pubmed:affiliation
Goethe University, Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 7, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article