Assembling an alkyl rotor to access abrupt and reversible crystalline deformation of a cobalt(II) complex

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Su, Sheng Qun ^a   Kamachi, Takashi ^a   Yao, Zi Shuo ^a   Huang, You Gui ^a   Shiota, Yoshihito ^a   Yoshizawa, Kazunari ^a   Azuma, Nobuaki ^b   Miyazaki, Yuji ^b   Nakano, Motohiro ^b   Maruta, Goro ^c   Takeda, Sadamu ^c   Kang, Soonchul ^a   Kanegawa, Shinji ^a   Sato, Osamu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYL GROUP; COBALT COMPLEX; LIGAND;

COBALT; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINITY; DEFORMATION; LIGAND; LOW TEMPERATURE; SHAPE; SIZE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COOLING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENTROPY; HEATING; LOW TEMPERATURE; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84946607214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9810     Document Type: Article

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