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CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages 2060-2066Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cg400121u
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- CREST from the JST
- MEXT
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25410005] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The stable dihydrate crystalline phase (DH) of erythromycin A loses water upon heating to give the anhydrous phase I (AI). Further heating then results in a polymorphic transformation via the amorphous state (melt) to give another anhydrous phase II (AII). The anhydrous phases of AI and AII undergo hydration when increasing the humidity. The crystals of AI showed stoichiometric hydration to give DH, whereas the crystals of AII Showed non stoichiometric hydration to give the humidity dependent nonstoichiometric hydrate phase (NSH). The crystal structures of AI and AII were directly determined from powder X-ray diffraction data using the direct space strategy for the structure solution followed by Rietveld refinement From the structural properties of AI and AII, aspects of the mechanism of the solid-state transformations of DH and the hydration behavior of AI and AII have been determined, and the importance of the hydrophilicity of the voids has been revealed.
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