The crystalline structure of pentaerythritol tetranitrate
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
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Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, C(CH2ONO2)4, is an interesting compound structurally, since there is, in the molecule, a carbon atom with foul' like groups (–CH2ONO2) attached to it. The molecule is therefore of the type CX4. It was hoped that an examination of the crystals by means of X-rays would show how far the molecule retains its form and symmetry in the crystalline state ; also that some light would be thrown on the configuration of the nitro- (–NO2) group, especially the equivalence or otherwise of the two oxygen atoms of the group—a question which it has not yet been found possible to settle by chemical methods.
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- Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 20 , Issue 109 , June 1925 , pp. 346 - 352
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- Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1925
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Page 346 note 1 Knaggs, I. E., Journ. Chem. Soc., London, 1923, Trans. vol. 123, p. 77.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Page 347 note 1 See Astbury, W. T. and Yardley, K., Tabulated data for the examination of the 230 space-groups by homogeneous X-rays. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, 1924, ser. A, vol. 224, p. 242 Google Scholar. [Min. Abstr., vol. 2, p. 366.]
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