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Deck LT, Mazzotti M. Conceptual Validation of Stochastic and Deterministic Methods To Estimate Crystal Nucleation Rates. CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN 2023; 23:899-914. [PMID: 36747576 PMCID: PMC9896484 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.2c01133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2022] [Revised: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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This work presents a generalized framework to assess the accuracy of methods to estimate primary and secondary nucleation rates from experimental data. The crystallization process of a well-studied model compound was simulated by means of a novel stochastic modeling methodology. Nucleation rates were estimated from the simulated data through multiple methods and were compared with the true values. For primary nucleation, no method considered in this work was able to estimate the rates accurately under general conditions. Two deterministic methods that are widely used in the literature were shown to overpredict rates in the presence of secondary nucleation. This behavior is shared by all methods that extract rates from deterministic process attributes, as they are insensitive to primary nucleation if secondary nucleation is sufficiently fast. Two stochastic methods were found to be accurate independent of whether secondary nucleation is present, but they underestimated rates in the case where a large number of primary nuclei are formed. We hence proposed a criterion to probe the accuracy of stochastic methods for arbitrary data sets, thus providing the theoretical foundations required for their rational use. Finally, we showed how both primary and secondary nucleation rates can be inferred from the same set of detection time data by combining deterministic and stochastic considerations.
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Nucleation kinetics-based solvent selection for the liquid antisolvent crystallization of a lipophilic intermediate. J Mol Liq 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2023.121306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Wang D, Wang Y, Li Y, Shi T, Han D, Gong J. Uncovering the role of impurity sugars on the crystallization of d-tagatose crystal: Experiments and molecular dynamics simulations. Food Chem 2022; 397:133762. [PMID: 35905620 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2022.133762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2022] [Revised: 07/05/2022] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Impurity sugars produced in upstream process of functional sugars are significantly impacting the product quality. In this work, the effect of congeners (d-maltose (d-MAL), d-fructose (d-FRU), d-glucose (d-GLU)) on primary and secondary nucleation of d-tagatose (d-TAG) crystals was investigated. The impurity sugars showed an inhibition on primary nucleation of d-TAG crystals, while a promotion on the secondary nucleation of d-TAG. Interestingly, the impact of impurity sugars on d-TAG crystal growth was similar to that on primary nucleation. The diffusion ability, hydrogen bonding forming ability, interaction energy of d-TAG crystal surfaces and impurity sugars were evaluated by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to reveal the nucleation and growth behavior. Based on the above findings, we designed the d-TAG crystallization experiments, and obtained d-TAG crystals with uniform particle size distribution and regular morphology. This study helps to understand the influence of impurity sugars on crystallization, guiding the industrial manufacturing of functional sugars.
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- Dongbo Wang
- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, 300072 Tianjin, PR China; The Co-Innovation Center of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Tianjin, 300072 Tianjin, PR China.
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, 300072 Tianjin, PR China; The Co-Innovation Center of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Tianjin, 300072 Tianjin, PR China
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- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 300308 Tianjin, PR China
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- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 300308 Tianjin, PR China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, 300072 Tianjin, PR China; The Co-Innovation Center of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Tianjin, 300072 Tianjin, PR China.
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, 300072 Tianjin, PR China; The Co-Innovation Center of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Tianjin, 300072 Tianjin, PR China
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Insight into the Nucleation Mechanism of p-Methoxybenzoic Acid in Ethanol-Water System from Metastable Zone Width. Molecules 2022; 27:molecules27134085. [PMID: 35807330 PMCID: PMC9268583 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27134085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2022] [Revised: 06/20/2022] [Accepted: 06/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The metastable zone width (MSZW) of p-methoxybenzoic acid (PMBA) in an ethanol-water system was measured using the polythermal method. The nucleation order m obtained by the Nývlt’s model indicates the nucleation of PMBA following a progressive nucleation mechanism at low saturation temperature (m = 3.18–7.50) and an instantaneous nucleation mechanism at high saturation temperature (m = 1.46–2.55). Then, combined with the metastable zone experiment and the Sangwal model, we found that the MSZW and the interfacial energy reached the maximum when the mass fraction of ethanol was 0.8, which resulted in the smallest crystal product size. Meanwhile, the maximum rcrit and ΔGcrit obtained based on the modified Sangwal model indicating the PMBA needs to overcome a higher nucleation barrier in the ethanol mass fraction of 0.8. Finally, we proposed a preferential strategy for adjusting MSZW by correlating the interfacial energy with the change in ethanol mass fraction, saturation temperature, and cooling rate, respectively.
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Cao J, Lou B, Xu Y, Qin X, Yuan H, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Rohani S, Lu J. Direct Crystallization Resolution of Racemates Enhanced by Chiral Nanorods: Experimental, Statistical, and Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Dynamics Simulation Studies. ACS OMEGA 2022; 7:19828-19841. [PMID: 35722018 PMCID: PMC9202296 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c01596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2022] [Accepted: 05/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Three chiral nanorods of C14-l-Thea, C14-l-Phe, and C14-d-Phe were first synthesized and utilized as heterogeneous nucleants to enhance the resolution of racemic Asp via direct crystallization. Through the statistical analysis from 320 batches of nucleation experiments, we found that the apparent appearance diversity of two enantiomeric crystals of Asp existed in 80 homogeneous experiments without chiral nanorods. However, in 240 heterogeneous experiments with 4.0 wt % chiral nanorods of solute mass added, the appearance of those nuclei with the same chirality as the nanorods was apparently promoted, and that with the opposite chirality was totally inhibited. Under a supersaturation level of 1.08, the maximum ee of the initial nuclei was as high as 23.51%. When the cooling rate was 0.025 K/min, the ee of the product was up to 76.85% with a yield of 14.41%. Furthermore, the simulation results from quantum mechanics (QM) and molecular dynamics (MD) revealed that the higher chiral recognition ability of C14-l-Thea compared to C14-l-Phe that originated from the interaction difference between C14-l-Thea and Asp enantiomers was larger than that between C14-l-Phe and Asp enantiomers. Moreover, the constructed nanorods exhibited good stability and recyclability.
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- Jiaojiao Cao
- Chemical
Engineering Department, Frontier Medical Technologies Institute, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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- Chemical
Engineering Department, Frontier Medical Technologies Institute, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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- Chemical
Engineering Department, Frontier Medical Technologies Institute, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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- Chemical
Engineering Department, Frontier Medical Technologies Institute, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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- Chemical
Engineering Department, Frontier Medical Technologies Institute, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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- Chemical
Engineering Department, Frontier Medical Technologies Institute, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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- Department
of Process Engineering, Memorial University
of Newfoundland, St John’s
NL A1B 3X5, Canada
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- Department
of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Western University, London N6A 5B9, Canada
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- Chemical
Engineering Department, Frontier Medical Technologies Institute, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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Zhao Y, Cui J, Liu L, Hou G, Kamaraju VK, Glennon B. Crystal Growth Kinetics of Benzoic Acid in Aqueous Ethanol Solution. Ind Eng Chem Res 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.0c05162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yan Zhao
- School of Chemical Engineering, Hebei Normal University of Science and Technology, Qinhuangdao 066004, P. R. China
- Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC), School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin D4, Ireland
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Hebei Normal University of Science and Technology, Qinhuangdao 066004, P. R. China
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Hebei Normal University of Science and Technology, Qinhuangdao 066004, P. R. China
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- Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC), School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin D4, Ireland
- APC Ltd, Dublin D4, Ireland
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Xiao Y, Yang W, Zhou L, Hao H, Bao Y, Yin Q, Xie C. Growth mechanism of the spherulitic propylthiouracil–kaempferol cocrystal: new perspectives into surface nucleation. CrystEngComm 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1ce00022e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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A growth mechanism of spherulitic cocrystals shows three stages of single crystal growth, non-crystallographic branching and surface nucleation. Low supersaturation forms loose spherulites, and high temperature causes “spherulites on spherulites”.
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- Yuntian Xiao
- Equation Chapter 1 Section 1 School of Chemical Engineering and Technology
- Tianjin University
- Tianjin 300072
- PR China
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- Equation Chapter 1 Section 1 School of Chemical Engineering and Technology
- Tianjin University
- Tianjin 300072
- PR China
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- Equation Chapter 1 Section 1 School of Chemical Engineering and Technology
- Tianjin University
- Tianjin 300072
- PR China
- National Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)
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- Equation Chapter 1 Section 1 School of Chemical Engineering and Technology
- Tianjin University
- Tianjin 300072
- PR China
- National Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)
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- Equation Chapter 1 Section 1 School of Chemical Engineering and Technology
- Tianjin University
- Tianjin 300072
- PR China
- National Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)
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- Equation Chapter 1 Section 1 School of Chemical Engineering and Technology
- Tianjin University
- Tianjin 300072
- PR China
- National Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)
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- Equation Chapter 1 Section 1 School of Chemical Engineering and Technology
- Tianjin University
- Tianjin 300072
- PR China
- National Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)
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Wang D, Lu J, Zhang L, Fan F, Zhang L, Liu X, Yuan H, Zhu X. Experimental and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study on the Primary Nucleation of Penicillamine Racemate and Its Enantiomers in the Mixture Solvent of Water and Ethanol. Ind Eng Chem Res 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.0c04958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Dongbo Wang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
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- China State Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, Shanghai 201203, China
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Fang C, Tang W, Wu S, Wang J, Gao Z, Gong J. Ultrasound-assisted intensified crystallization of L-glutamic acid: Crystal nucleation and polymorph transformation. ULTRASONICS SONOCHEMISTRY 2020; 68:105227. [PMID: 32615404 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2020.105227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2019] [Revised: 06/09/2020] [Accepted: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
In this paper, the crystallization of L-glutamic acid with application of ultrasound was explored in detail, including the process of nucleation, polymorphic control and polymorphic transformation. The induction time and metastable zone widths (MSZWs) were measured with and without ultrasound during the nucleation process. The induction time and MSZWs were decreased by ultrasound and the induction time was further decreased by higher ultrasonic power. The calculated nucleation parameters (such as interfacial energy, critical nucleus size and critical Gibbs energy) showed an obvious decrease in the presence of ultrasound, indicating that the nucleation was enhanced with application of ultrasound. By adjusting the ultrasonic power in the quench cooling process, the difference in nucleation temperatures would determine the distribution of polymorphs. In further, the polymorphic transformation was investigated quantitatively, and to the best of our knowledge, it was the first time to study the transformation kinetics with ultrasound using Avrami-Erofeev model. In the transformation process, the crystallization mechanism of the stable form was modified by ultrasound. The ultrasound eliminated the nucleation element in the rate-limiting step and facilitated the crystal growth of stable form. Thus, the ultrasound has a profound influence on L-glutamic acid crystallization.
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- Chen Fang
- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; The Co-Innovation Center of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Tianjin, Tianjin 300072, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; The Co-Innovation Center of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Tianjin, Tianjin 300072, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; The Co-Innovation Center of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Tianjin, Tianjin 300072, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; The Co-Innovation Center of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Tianjin, Tianjin 300072, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; The Co-Innovation Center of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Tianjin, Tianjin 300072, China.
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; The Co-Innovation Center of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Tianjin, Tianjin 300072, China.
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