Insights into topochemical versus stress-induced high-pressure reactivity of azobenzene by single crystal X-ray diffraction
Agati, Milo; Romi, Sebastiano; Fanetti, Samuele; Radacki, Krzysztof; Hanfland, Michael; Braunschweig, Holger; Marder, Todd B.; Clark, Stewart J.; Friedrich, Alexandra; Bini, Roberto; Chemical Science 16 (2025) 9240–9254; doi:10.1039/D5SC00432B

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_publ_section_title
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 Insights into topochemical versus stress-induced high-pressure reactivity
 of azobenzene by single crystal X-ray diffraction
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_journal_name_full               'Chemical Science'
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_journal_year                    2025
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2024-02-29 deposited with the CCDC.	2025-04-04 downloaded from the CCDC.
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 List of Runs (angles in degrees, time in seconds):
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
  1  \w    -33.00  32.00   0.50    0.50    --    0.00   0.00   0.00  130
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 CrysAlisPro convention (1999,Acta A55,543-557)
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 CrysAlisPro 1.171.42.58a (Rigaku Oxford Diffraction, 2022) Empirical 
 absorption correction using spherical harmonics, implemented in SCALE3 
 ABSPACK scaling algorithm.
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 For data collection the crystal was mounted in a diamond-anvil cell.
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 w=1/[\s^2^(Fo^2^)+(0.1295P)^2^+0.1540P] where P=(Fo^2^+2Fc^2^)/3
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'Adding full bibliography for 1574311--1574352.cif.'
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