摘要:
A novel organic molecular phase transition material, N-isopropylbenzylamine trifluoromethanesulfonate (1), which displays the reversible tunable dielectric behavior, has been successfully assembled by the intermolecular hydrogen-bonds. It undergoes a first-order solid-to-solid state phase transition at 189.7K (T-c), being confirmed by thermal analyses including differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), specific heat (C-p) and dielectric measurements. The dielectric constant and dielectric loss of 1 exhibit obvious anomalies and slight tunabilities triggered by heating when the temperature increases approaching to T-c. Variable-temperature single crystal X-ray diffraction demonstrates that the origin of its phase transition may be ascribed to the order-disorder transformation of trifluoromethanesulfonate anions, together with the slight twisting motions of the isopropyl groups in N-isopropylbenzylammonium cation. All the findings make us believe that I might be a potential phase transition material. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.