Acta Cryst. (2000). B56, 1003-1010 [doi:10.1107/S0108768100007564]
Abstract: In the compound [C6H6O2]3C60, hydroquinone (C6H6O2) forms a three-dimensional hydrogen-bonded network enclosing roughly spherical cages with point symmetry 
m and a diameter of 13.2 Å at 100 K. Although C60 fits tightly into these cages, it shows threefold orientational disorder, the molecular site symmetry being 2/m. The disorder has been studied with single-crystal Mo K![[alpha]](/logos/entities/alpha_rmgif.gif)
X-ray data at four temperatures, 100, 200, 293 and 373 K. In the refinement, C60 was restrained to the icosahedral molecular symmetry m
and to rigid-body translational and librational displacements including third- and fourth-order cumulants to account for curvilinear atomic movements, R(|F|) = 3.2-4.7%. At 100 K, bond lengths in C60 refine to the expected values 1.450 (1) and 1.388 (1) Å. The ratio of these values increases with increasing temperature, but the radius of the molecule remains constant at 3.537 (2) Å. The r.m.s. libration amplitudes of C60 are relatively small (5.5° at 373 K) and the probability function of orientations of C60 inside the cage shows large values only at the refined positions, indicating that the energy barrier of reorientation is large. Refinement of an ordered twinned structure was unsuccessful; the orientations of neighboring C60 appear to be uncorrelated.
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