Crystallization thermodynamic scheme

However it is evidently senseless to rednce single ciystal elec-trochemistiy to material science, a tool to solve some pnzzles of real materials, bnt it is easy to see that appealing to varions materials widens a field of visiom The same is with inadeqnacy of idea to put this area in frames of classical thermodynamic scheme. Following its own way, single crystal experiments collect more and more information abont behavior of 1 adlayer components, bnt keeping some traditions of data treatment wonld not be ont of place for this advanced field. The snbseqnent Sections touch briefly three points of most visible intersection. 

Figure 23.5 demonstrated for sPP with related copol5Tners the independence of the crystal thickness from the co-unit content. Figure 23.7 showed for PEc014 the effect of two different diluents, namely of n-hexadecane and of methylanthracene [17]. The resnlts demonstrated that the effect of diluents can be different A dissolntion of methylanthracene leaves the crystalUzation hne unchanged, prodneing only a shift in the melting line, but the dissolution of n-hexadecane results in shifts of both the melting- as well as the crystallization line. The thermodynamic scheme provides an understanding, and the two different situations are dealt with in Fig. 23.14. Effects depend on whether or...

Strobl G (2006) Crystallization and melting of bulk polymers new observations, conclusions and a thermodynamic scheme. Prog Polym Sci 31(4) 398-442 Strobl G (2009) Colloquium laws controlling crystallization and melting in bulk polymers. Rev Mod Phys 81(3) 1287-1300... 

Strobl G. Crystallization and melting of bulk polymers New observations, eonelusions and a thermodynamic scheme. Prog Polym Sci 2006 31 398-442. 

It is possible to construct a thermodynamic scheme that shows the features of Fig. 5.33, i.e., a crystallization hne, a reerj taUization hne, both being unaffected by co-units and stereo-defects, and a melting line. It deals with four different phases ... 

A distinction between a solid and liquid is often made in terms of the presence of a crystalline or noncrystalline state. Crystals have definite lines of cleavage and an orderly geometric structure. Thus, diamond is crystalline and solid, while glass is not. The hardness of the substance does not determine the physical state. Soft crystals such as sodium metal, naphthalene, and ice are solid while supercooled glycerine or supercooled quartz are not crystalline and are better considered to be supercooled liquids. Intermediate between the solid and liquid are liquid crystals, which have orderly structures in one or two dimensions,4 but not all three. These demonstrate that science is never as simple as we try to make it through our classification schemes. We will see that thermodynamics handles such exceptions with ease. 

Oxidative addition of H2 and Ph3SiH to IrBr(CO)(chiraphos), where chiraphos 2,S, 3,S -bis (diphenylphosphino)butane, leads to stable kinetic (115a,115b), followed by thermodynamic (116a,116b) diastereomers as shown in reaction Scheme 15.2 3 The crystal structure of cis-[IrH2(chiraphos)2]BF4 has been reported.204... 

Deoxy-a-D-ribosyl-l-phosphate 20, a key substrate in the preparation of 2 -deoxynucleosides, was stereoselectively prepared by crystallization-induced asymmetric transformation in the presence of an excess of ortho-phosphoric acid and tri( -butyl)amine under strictly anhydrous conditions (Scheme 2).7 Initial Sn2 displacement of Cl in ot-glycosyl chloride 16 by phosphoric acid resulted in a 1 1 a/p anomeric mixture of 17 and 18 due to the rapid anomerisation of the a-chloride in polar solvents. Under acidic conditions, in the presence of an excess of H3P04, an equilibration between the a and p anomers gradually changed in favour of the thermodynamically more stable a-counterpart. By selective crystallization of the mono tri( -butyl)ammonium salt of the a-phosphate from the mixture, the equilibrium could be shifted towards the desired a-D-ribosyl phosphate 18 (oc/p = 98.5 1.5), which was isolated as bis-cyclohexylammonium salt 19 and deprotected to furnish compound 20. 

Porschke and colleagues have observed a curious isomerization of the complex Pd(dippe) 2 / i- 7 / -HC2C2H in dg-thf solution at —80°C. Over a period of about a week both Pd(dippe) moieties become coordinated to the same C C bond. Warming a solution of this lower symmetry isomer to 0°C results in only partial reversal of the isomerization. The isomers are apparently in slow equilibrium, with various subtle and unspecified factors determining which one is preferred and while the Pd(dippe) 2 Ai- M- -HC2C2H (68) form is thermodynamically favored in solution, crystallization affords Pd(dippe) 2 /z-/7 >7 -HC2CsCH (69) (Scheme 19). ... 

An interesting study with BATO compounds concerns the linkage isomerization of coordinated [NCS] in [Tc(NCS)(cdoh)2(cdo)(BMe)] (440). Both a red, N-bond isothiocyanato complex [Tc(NCS)(cdoh)2(cdo)(BMe)] and the brown, S-bond thiocyanato complex [Tc(SCN)(dmg)3(BR)] (441) were isolated from the direct synthesis from [Tc04] . The N-bound (440) was found to be thermodynamically more stable than the S-bound isomer (441) and the conversion was monitored elegantly by spectroscopic methods. The X-ray crystal structure of (440) was determined. The NCS and SCN -substituted analogues exhibited r c N stretch at 2,114-2,124 cm and at 2,055-2,079 cm , respectively. " (Scheme 59). 

Chiral N/O-acetals may racemize in the solid state when water of crystallization is present. Examples are the epimerizations of the oxazolidines 97 that contain water from their preparation by stereoselective condensation. Thus, the kinetically preferred products 97a,b (which are admixed to the thermodynamically more stable products 98a,b) epimerize within some weeks in the solid state to give enantiopure 98a,b [661 (Scheme 9). It appears that the N/O-acetal hydrolyses and recloses. Solid-state racemizations are quantitative if the 1 1 equilibrium between the enantiomers is obtained. Therefore they do not really fulfill the criterion of only one product. Numerous examples in the organo-metallic field are listed in [671 and [681. 

Aldonolactones are commercially available at low cost, when compared to most of the common monosaccharides. They are typically synthesized by selective anomeric oxidation of unprotected aldoses with bromine [6]. Usually the thermodynamically more stable five-membered lactone (y-lactone) predominates over the six-membered form, with the exception of o-gluconolactone, which crystallizes as the 1,5-pyranolactone (5-lactone) [7] (Scheme 1). Another method for the preparation of sugar lactones is the dehydrogenation of unprotected or partially... 

The statistical thermodynamic method discussed here provides a bridge between the molecular crystal structures of Chapter 2 and the macroscopic thermodynamic properties of Chapter 4. It also affords a comprehensive means of correlation and prediction of all of the hydrate equilibrium regions of the phase diagram, without separate prediction schemes for two-, three-, and four-phase regions, inhibition, and so forth as in Chapter 4. However, for a qualitative understanding of trends and an approximation (or a check) of prediction schemes in this chapter, the previous chapter is a valuable tool. 

With an emerging correlation between the solid-state reactivity and the radical stabilizing energy (RSE) of the a-substituents, Campos et al. suggested that solid-state reactivity may be predictable from the RSE values of the substituents [71]. Taking the reaction of acetone as a reference, and assuming that reactions in crystals must be thermoneutral or exothermic, these authors suggested that substituents with RSE 11 kcal mol 1 on both a-carbons should make the reaction thermodynamically possible. As indicated in Scheme 2.41, the proposed RSE value derives from the... 

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