Ehrmann Katharina, Baudis Stefan, Stöger Berthold
Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, TU Wien, Getreidemarkt 9, 1060 Vienna, Austria.
X-ray Centre, TU Wien, 1060 Vienna, Austria.
Acta Crystallogr B Struct Sci Cryst Eng Mater. 2019 Aug 1;75(Pt 4):733-741. doi: 10.1107/S2052520619008461. Epub 2019 Jul 23.
The phase transition of E-vanillyl oxime {1-[(E)-(hydroxyimino)methyl]-4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzene, CHNO} has been analysed by single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction. The high-temperature (HT) phase (P2/a, Z' = 1) transforms into the low-temperature (LT) phase (threefold superstructure, P\overline{1}, Z' = 6) at ca 190 K. The point operations lost on cooling, {m, 2}, are retained as twin operations and constitute the twin law. The screw rotations and glide reflections are retained in the LT phase as partial operations acting on a subset of Euclidean space {\bb E}^3. The full symmetry of the LT phase, including partial operations, is described by a disconnected space groupoid which is built of three connected components.