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. 2018 Oct 18;14(11):5511–5526. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00725

Table 1. Structural Parameters of and Energy Difference between the Different Metastable Phases of MIL-53(Al) and CAU-13 As Obtained from Periodic Force Field Optimizations at 0 Ka.

  MIL-53(Al)
CAU-13
  cp lp cp lp
ΔElp–cp [kJ/mol] 42.50 1.0
volume [Å3] 792 1462 568 677
abc [Å] 19.52, 13.03, 6.28 16.79, 13.18, 13.20 13.72, 10.26, 8.85 12.98, 11.09, 12.29
α, β, γ [°] 91, 89, 97 89, 89, 89 111, 100, 90 120, 115, 85
r1 [Å] 4.3 8.7 4.9 5.9
γ1 [°] 24 87 108 155
Inline graphic, Inline graphic     108, 108 155, 155
ϕ1 [°] 114 164 –57 55
Inline graphic, Inline graphic     –57, −57 55, 55
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The parameters a, b, c, α, β, and γ determine the unit cell matrix. For the definitions of the various internal degrees of freedom or order parameters, we refer to Figure 3.