The pressure-induced structural transformation of CHD involves, apart from other effects, the interchange of donor and acceptor sites by the enolic H atoms in the hydrogen bonds. The structure, despite its close similarities with antiferroelectric crystals, is ordered in the high-pressure phase, also retaining its low-pressure symmetry. It is possible that the crystals have a domain structure in both low-and highpressure phases. The proposed mechanism of the transformation strongly suggests an important role of electrostatic interactions in the transformation and in the jump of the enolic H atom to its other site in the OH---O bond. This mechanism also affords an explanation of the phase transition observed in CPD and of the exceptional stability of MCPD at high pressures; however, several points still need to be confirmed and further studies are being carried out on the CHD crystals.The author is grateful to Professor Z. Katuski for encouragement, to Dr R. J. Nelmes for his invitation to use the high-pressure and X-ray facilities of the Physics Department, University of Edinburgh, to Professor M. C. Etter of the Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, for stimulating discussions and providing the 1,3-cyclohexanedione samples crystallized from 2-pentanone, and to Dr J. Koput (Adam Mickiewicz University) for his expertise in the MNDO calculations. This study was partly supported by the British Council and by the Polish Academy of Sciences, Project CPBP, 01.12.References ALLMANN, R. (1977
AbstractA method is presented based on graph theory for categorizing hydrogen-bond motifs in such a way that complex hydrogen-bond patterns can be disentangled, or decoded, systematically and consistently. * Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1989-1991 This method is based on viewing hydrogen-bond patterns topologically as if they were intertwined nets with molecules as the nodes and hydrogen bonds as the lines. Surprisingly, very few parameters are needed to define the hydrogen-bond motifs comprising these networks. The methods for making these assignments, and examples of their chemical utility are given.