The structure and heat capacity of fluoromethane monolayers adsorbed on graphite

2D constraint modifies packing behaviour: a halobenzene monolayer with X3 halogen-bonding motif

Using a combination of X-ray diffraction and simulation techniques, we are able to identify a crystalline monolayer of 1,3,5-triiodotrifluorobenzene formed on graphite. The monolayer is found to exhibit an incommensurate hexagonal unit cell with a lattice parameter of 9.28(7) Å, exhibiting a trigonal arrangement of iodine atoms not found in the bulk structure. DFT simulations have been performed exhibiting close agreement with the experimental structure. Importantly these simulations can be used to compare the strength of the intermolecular interactions both with and without Van der Waals corrections. Thus it is possible to estimate that halogen bonding consists of approximately half the total interaction energy. This demonstrates that despite the presence of strong directional non-covalent bonding, dispersion interactions account for a very significant proportion of the total energy.

Supramolecular self-assembled network formation containing N⋯Br halogen bonds in physisorbed overlayers

The formation of a halogen bonded self-assembled co-crystal physisorbed monolayer containing N⋯Br interactions is reported for the first time.

Phase behavior of heptanamide adsorbed on a graphite substrate

In this letter, the phase behavior of a saturated alkylamide, heptanamide (C(7)), adsorbed on the surface of graphite using synchrotron X-ray diffraction is presented. The diffraction patterns indicate that heptanamide undergoes a solid-solid phase transition in the monolayer at 330 K from pgg symmetry at lower temperatures to p2 symmetry at high temperatures. Other alkylamides with similar carbon chain lengths do not show this phase change, making the C(7) homologue unusual.