Organic alloys of room temperature liquids thiophenol and selenophenol

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Sep 28;51(75):14255-8. doi: 10.1039/c5cc03322e. Epub 2015 Aug 12.

Abstract

The first examples of organic alloys of two room temperature liquids, obtained and characterized via in situ cryo-crystallography, are presented. Thiophenol and selenophenol, which exhibit isostructurality and similar modes of S⋯S and Se⋯Se homo-chalcogen interactions along with weak and rare S–H⋯S and Se–H⋯Se hydrogen bonds, are shown to form solid solutions exhibiting Veggard's law-like trends.