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Application of molecular mechanics to refine and understand the crystal structure of polythiophene and its oligomers

✍ Scribed by Dino R. Ferro; William Porzio; Silvia Destri; Massimo Ragazzi; Sergio Brückner

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
707 KB
Volume
6
Category
Article
ISSN
1022-1344

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Abstract

A molecular mechanics computational procedure, previously used for the refinement and the analysis of several crystalline polymers, was applied to investigate the crystal structures of the tetramer (T4) and hexamer (T6) of thiophene, as well as the crystal structure of polythiophene (PT). Simultaneous minimization of intra‐ and intermolecular energies of the T4 and T6 structures, obtained by Rietveld analysis of powder X‐ray diffraction profiles, leads to molecular conformations showing smaller deviations from the ring co‐planarity than the original models. For both oligomers the calculations confirm that the molecular centre of inversion is not a crystallographic centre of symmetry, as also revealed by X‐ray diffraction of the T6 single crystal. This surprising effect appears to arise from intermolecular interactions between the terminal residues, hence is not relevant with respect to the PT polymer structure. The small energy cost for constraining the molecules at the crystallographic centre of symmetry is in agreement with experimental findings that reveal the existence of polymorphs for both T4 and T6. The calculations on the T6 single crystal were used to upgrade the MM2‐like force field, which was then used to determine the minimum‐energy model of the monoclinic crystal structure of polythiophene.

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