Sucrose Conformational Polymorphism: A Jigsaw Puzzle with Multiple Routes to a Unique Solution

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Title:	Sucrose Conformational Polymorphism: A Jigsaw Puzzle with Multiple Routes to a Unique Solution
Authors:	Lee,T;Da Chang,G
Contributors:	化學工程與材料工程學系
Keywords:	NEUTRON-DIFFRACTION;NMR-SPECTROSCOPY;BEHAVIOR;CRYSTALLINE;REFINEMENT
Date:	2009
Issue Date:	2010-06-29 17:28:02 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	中央大學
Abstract:	Scale-up sucrose crystals grown from a furfuryl alcohol-water sucrose solution at 60 degrees C exhibited a wide endothermic peak from 140 degrees to 170 degrees C by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at 10 degrees C/min, whereas commercial Sucrose crystals displayed only one sharp melting peak around 185 degrees to 189 degrees C. Surprisingly, it was found that the inclusion of trace amounts of salts and water or degradation of sucrose did not offer a satisfying explanation for the occurrence of the wide low-melting peak from 140 degrees to 170 degrees C. On the basis of powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SXD), solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (SSNMR), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). hot-stage optical microscopy (HSOM), variable temperature powder X-ray diffraction (VT-PXRD), electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA), and solubility measurements, one possible explanation for the low-melting peak in differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was because the Sucrose crystals grown from the furfuryl alcohol-water sucrose solution at 60 degrees C consisted of sucrose molecules having different degrees of conformational disorders about the -CH2-OH functional groups of the fructofuranose ring such that the inter-residue intramolecular hydrogen bonds between the hydroxyl groups and the glucopyranose ring oxygen were misaligned. The activation energy, E-a, and the enthalpy, Delta H, for the polymorphic transformation of the low melting metastable polymorph around 150 degrees to 160 degrees C to the high melting thermodynamically stable form around 185 degrees C were 185.2 kJ/mol (i.e., 44.2 kcal/mol) and 2.9 kJ/mol (i.e., 0.7 kcal/mol), respectively. This polymorphic transformation could be kinetically controlled by mass-transfer through viscosity, solvent evaporation rate, and mixing. However, under the orchestration of intermolecular and intramolecular hydrogen bonds, the polymorphic transformation could be achieved by different pathways in different microdomains to produce various degrees of conformational polymorphs if the micromixing was poor. As a result, a mixture of crystals or microdomains with a wide range of melting temperatures and relatively high solubility were produced.
Relation:	CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN
Appears in Collections:	[National Central University Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering] journal & Dissertation

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