Kanda Hideki, Katsube Tsubasa, Hoshino Rintaro, Kishino Mitsuhiro, Goto Motonobu
Department of Materials Process Engineering, Nagoya University, Furocho, Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan.
PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.
Heliyon. 2020 Oct 14;6(10):e05258. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05258. eCollection 2020 Oct.
Liquefied dimethyl ether (DME) was employed as an antisolvent to crystallize glycine from its aqueous solution. The proposed method can be performed at 20-25 °C and has the potential to reduce the energy consumption of drying or crystallizing using ethanol. α-Glycine crystals were successfully obtained from glycine aqueous solutions by mixing in liquefied DME, which was easily removed from the crystals by decompression. Contact with a liquefied DME/water mixture and small γ-glycine crystals resulted in the α-glycine converting to γ-glycine. This was only observed for saturated glycine solutions. We speculated that this conversion occurs via a solution-mediated transition. Pure liquefied DME is not capable of promoting solvent-mediated transitions, so saturated glycine solutions treated with the pure antisolvent can give α-glycine as the sole product.
液化二甲醚(DME)被用作抗溶剂,从甘氨酸水溶液中结晶出甘氨酸。所提出的方法可在20 - 25°C下进行,并且有潜力降低使用乙醇进行干燥或结晶的能耗。通过在液化DME中混合,成功地从甘氨酸水溶液中获得了α - 甘氨酸晶体,通过减压可轻松地从晶体中除去DME。与液化DME/水混合物和小的γ - 甘氨酸晶体接触会导致α - 甘氨酸转化为γ - 甘氨酸。这仅在饱和甘氨酸溶液中观察到。我们推测这种转化是通过溶液介导的转变发生的。纯液化DME不能促进溶剂介导的转变,因此用纯抗溶剂处理的饱和甘氨酸溶液可以得到α - 甘氨酸作为唯一产物。