SiBr4--prediction and determination of crystal structures.

@article{Wolf2009SiBr4predictionAD,
  title={SiBr4--prediction and determination of crystal structures.},
  author={Alexandra K. Wolf and J{\"u}rgen Glinnemann and Martin U. Schmidt and Jianwei Tong and Robert E. Dinnebier and Arndt Simon and J{\"u}rgen K{\"o}hler},
  journal={Acta crystallographica. Section B, Structural science},
  year={2009},
  volume={65 Pt 3},
  pages={
          342-9
        }
}
For SiBr4 no crystal structures have been reported yet. In this work the crystal structures of SiBr4 were predicted by global lattice-energy minimizations using force-field methods. Over an energy range of 5 kJ mol(-1) above the global minimum ten possible structures were found. Two of these structures were experimentally determined from X-ray synchrotron powder diffraction data: The low-temperature beta phase crystallizes in P2(1)/c, the high-temperature alpha phase in Pa3. Temperature… 
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