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    The effect of pressure on circular dichroism spectra of a chiral helicoidal chromium complex

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    The effect of pressure on circular dichroism (CD) spectra of the octahedral chiral Λ- and Δ-tris-[cyclic O,O′,1(R), 2(R)-dimethylethylene dithiophosphato]chromium(III) complexes, Λ- and Δ-Cr[(R,R)bdtp]3, in the solid state has been studied. The pressure range investigated was 0-4 GPa. A method for measuring CD spectra under pressure is described. Results on polycrystalline samples in nujol indicate that the configuration at the metal centre of the chiral chromium complex inverts from the Δ- to the Λ-form, which eventually is the most stable at high pressure

    Intermediate regime in pressure-induced neutral-ionic transition in tetrathiafulvalene-chloranil

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    We report a detailed spectroscopic study of the pressure-induced neutral-ionic phase transition of the mixedstack charge-transfer crystal tetrathiafulvalene-chloranil. We show that the pressure induced phase transition is still first-order and involves the presence of an intermediate disordered phase, defined by the coexistence of two species of different ionicity. Further application of pressure gradually converts this phase into an homogeneous ferroelectric phase with a single ionicity. In addition, we detect strong pretransitional phenomena which anticipate the intermediate phase and are indicative of a precursor dynamic regime dominated by fluctuations

    Configurational equilibrium and CD spectra under pressure of chiral octahedral complexes: Λ- and Δ-Cr[(-)(R,R)bdtp]3

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    We have studied the effect of pressure on the configurational inversion reaction at the metal centre of the chiral tris-(cyclic O,O'1(R),2(R)-dimethylethylene dithiophosphato) chromium(III) complexes, Λ(-)589Cr[(R,R)bdtp]3 and Δ(+)589Cr[(R,R)bdtp]3, in solutions of different solvents. We have observed positive or negative Cotton effects, assigned to the 4A2→4T2 transition of the metal ion in the visible region, and their evolution on increasing pressure. At equilibrium and at room conditions one observes a prevalence of the Δ-(R,R)(R,R)(R,R) diastereoisomer in CHCl3 or CH2Cl2 and of the Λ- one in THF. On increasing the pressure a change in the inversion equilibrium occurs, producing an increase in the concentration of the Λ-(R,R)(R,R)(R,R) form in all solvents
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