Abstract
Abstract Molecular crystal structures of 81 polymorphs of binary compounds are investigated with the method of coordination sequences and with the uniformity criterion for atomic sublattices. It is shown that using these tools one can estimate semi-quantitatively the relative force of inter-molecular interactions and to find so-called structure-forming lattice, i.e. the atomic sublattice, where the most stable long-wavelength phonons are likely to spread. When a crystal consists of molecules with distinguished central atoms, the polarizability of surrounding atoms is found to dictate mainly the composition of the structure-forming lattice. If the polarizability is small, crystal structure is formed by molecules as a whole, otherwise surrounding atoms form the structure basis themselves, and it is their lattice that often is one of the close packings. It is shown that if the central atom of a molecule has stereoactive lone pair the central atom can form the structure-forming lattice together with surrounding atoms.
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