Abstract
(Ph2Ge5) can be obtained from solutions in five crystalline phases, two pure and three including solvent of crystallization. This is lost at 70 °C. At 190 °C all phases transform into a plastic crystalline phase. For this tetragonal phase a gear wheel model for librations of the molecules is developed. The crystal structure of triclinic (Ph2Ge)5 has been determined and refined to R = 0.050. The molecule has a flexible conformation in accordance with a better solubility than exhibited by the homologous rings (Ph2Ge)4 and (Ph2Ge)6 containing rigid normal conformations. The arrangement of phenyl groups is either parallel or perpendicular for both cases intra- and intermolecular. The compound (Ph2Ge)6 attains a plastic crystalline state at 346 °C.
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