Issue 3, 2016

Salt-dependent growth kinetics in glycine polymorphic crystallization

Abstract

Mechanistic exploration of the salt-dependent polymorphic outcome of solution crystallization of an important classical model compound, glycine, was carried out by measuring the growth rates of α-glycine and γ-glycine single seed crystals in the presence of typical inorganic salts. The most surprising finding was that all the three divalent cation salts examined here inhibited the growth of γ-glycine far more severely than that of α-glycine, thereby reinforcing the preferential formation of α-glycine. This strongly indicates that crystal (nucleus) growth kinetics plays an important role in determining the outcome of glycine polymorphic crystallization in the presence of these associated divalent cation salts. On the other hand, monovalent cation salts of different cations (Na+, K+ and NH4+), in general, do not significantly change the relative growth competitiveness of α-glycine and γ-glycine but they readily alter the polymorphic selectivity from α-glycine to γ-glycine. It is therefore inferred that nucleation phenomena (e.g., clustering and ordering of solute molecules in solution) also make a great contribution to directing the path of glycine polymorphic crystallization. As such, the observations from this study provide new insights into additive-directed glycine polymorphic crystallization.

Graphical abstract: Salt-dependent growth kinetics in glycine polymorphic crystallization

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
09 Oct 2015
Accepted
06 Dec 2015
First published
07 Dec 2015

CrystEngComm, 2016,18, 462-470

Author version available

Salt-dependent growth kinetics in glycine polymorphic crystallization

G. Han, P. S. Chow and R. B. H. Tan, CrystEngComm, 2016, 18, 462 DOI: 10.1039/C5CE01974E

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