. 66,692 (1988). The inelastic neutron scattering (INS) spectra of rotational tunnelling and librations of NH3 ligands in phase 111 of Ni(NH3)6(N03)2 are not consistent with a rotational hindrance potential containing only cos ( 3 4 ) terms owing to strong interaction between neighboring cations. This type of interaction, and motion of the whole cation, also influences the classical reorienta$onal motions involving displacement of the H atoms, where the overall radius of rotation is consistently greater than the 0.9 A expected for isolated NH3 rotors. Quasielastic neutron scattering (QNS) suggests that in phase 111 there are two sublattices of cations, one of which becomes completely disordered (with respect to the NH3 rotors) at the 111-11 phase transition.Disorder of the second sublattice marks the 11-1 transformation where only a single type of rotational motion is found. GORDON J. KEARLEY et HERMA BLANK. Can. J. Chem. 66, 692 (1988).
Les spectres de diffusion des neutrons inklastiques (DNI) de l'effet tunnel de rotation et des librations des ligands NH3 dans leNi(NH3)6(N03)2 de phase 111 ne sont pas en accord avec un potentiel d'em@chement la rotation ne contenant que des termes cos ( 3~4 ) provenant d'une interaction forte entre les cations voisins. Ce type d'interaction, ainsi que le mouvement du cation dans son ensemble, influencent aussi les mouvements classiques de rkori5ntation impliquant le dkplacement des atomes H dans lesquels le rayon global de la rotation est toujours plus grand que le 0,9 A attendu pour des rotors NH3 isolCs. La diffusion des neutrons quasi-dastiques (DNQ) suggkre que, dans la phase 111, il existe deux sous-rkseaux de cations dont I'un devient completement dCsordonnk (par rapport aux rotors NH3) lors de la transition phase 111 + 11. Le dtsordre du deuxi5me sous-rCseau marque la transformation I1 + I dans laquelle on ne trouve qu'un seul type de mouvement de rotation.[Traduit par la revue]
IntroductionThe role played by disorder and reorientations of the ammine ligands in transition-metal hexammine salts has attracted the attention of several groups over the course of a number of years (see ref. 1 and references therein). The overall picture of six ammine groups, which undergo rotational diffusion at high temperature and then freeze into fixed orientations in the lowest-temperature phase transition, is generally accepted, but the details of the NH3 orientations, particularly in the lowtemperature phases, are largely unknown (2-5). In the present study we are concerned with motions not only of the NH3 groups but also of the entire hexammine ion in three phases of nickel hexammine nitrate.The sequence of phase transitions has been studied by ir (6), Raman (7), epr (8), and INS (9) spectroscopies, and by specific heat measurements (10, 1 1). For Ni(NH3)6(N03)2, the transitions between the phases are usually quoted as (9):