In organic benzophenone derivative crystal had tendency to crack in air at ambient room temperature at one direction? its grown by slow evaporation method ?in any reasion for this problem?
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You might be able to spot an explanation in this link with diagrams of the structure. http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=benzophenone+crystal+structure+pictures&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=L--OSaesL5j-NIDdnLQL&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title Most crystal have planes containing the lowest number of links across the plane. These are susceptible to slip and possibly cracks if the crystal experiences any stresses (such as might be caused by an evaporative change of temperature for example). Benzophenone is a fairly flat molecule an probably stacks in planes not unlike graphite, but check the crystal pictures.
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