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The Normal Paraffins Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2013

R. D. Heyding ,
K. E. Russell ,
T. L. Varty  and
D. St-Cyr
R. D. Heyding
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
K. E. Russell
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
T. L. Varty
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
D. St-Cyr
Affiliation:
Research Centre, Du Pont Canada Inc., Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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The low temperature modifications of the normal paraffins n-CnH2n+2crystallize in three groups (Broadhurst, 1962). The structure is triclinic for n even, 6 < n < 26 (Muller and Lonsdale, 1948; Nyburg and Luth, 1972); orthorhombic for n odd, 11 < n < 39 (Smith, 1953; Teare, 1959); and monoclinic for n even, 28 < n < 36 (Shearer and Vand, 1956). In all of these structures the hydrocarbon chains are linear and in trans configuration. The chains are parallel to one another, the terminal methyl groups forming the surfaces of lamella which are more or less perpendicular to the chain axis. For n < ca.36, it is apparently the interlamellar interaction between end methyl groups which dictates the symmetry. For longer chains the structure is usually orthorhombic and comparable to the structure of highly crystalline polyethylenes. Chains do not fold (as they undoubtedly do in polyethylenes) unless n is greater than 102 (Bidd and Whiting, 1985; Ungar and Keller, 1986).

The several crystal forms differ in the manner in which the nearest neighbor chains are related to one another. In the triclinic lattices the packing is such that a triclinic sublattice containing one methylene group is evident. In the other modifications the sublattice is orthorhombic and contains four methylene groups. If the overall symmetry is orthorhombic the long chain axes are perpendicular to the interlamellar surface; the x and y translations, perpendicular to the long axis, are common to both cells. If the nearest neighbor chains are displaced by two or four methylene groups along the chain axis, overall monoclinic symmetry results (Sullivan and Weeks (1970)).

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Powder Diffraction , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 1990 , pp. 93 - 100
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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