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2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Study of in situ crystallization method, of liquid compounds and their crystal structures

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15550006
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Physical chemistry
Research InstitutionTOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Principal Investigator

UEKUSA Hidehiro  Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Associate Professor, 大学院・理工学研究科, 助教授 (60242260)

Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2004
KeywordsX-ray Structure Analysis / Acetic Esters / Low melting point compounds / melting point alternation / in situ crystallization / rapid X-ray measurement
Research Abstract

Low melting point acetic esters are important solvent and also used as industrial materials. Therefore, understanding their physical and chemical properties is essential for utilizing these compounds further. As melting point (m.p.) is one of the fundamental property, explaining m.p.behavior of "m.p.alternation" by structural feature is attracting the interests of crystallographers.
Different from n-alkane with two functional group (e.g.alkanedicarboxylic acid and alkanediol), acetic esters (AcO(CH_2)n-1 CH_3) show no m.p.alternation behavior in longer alkyl chain region, however, smaller acetic esters show prominent m.p.alternation (-96,-81,-91,-75,-68,-60℃ for n=1 to 6). In order to investigate this behavior of small acetic esters, crystal structures of methyl acetate (n=1) to amyl acetate (n=5) were investigated by single crystal X-ray structure analysis.
As they are liquid in room temperature, single crystals were grown by "in situ crystallization" method on the R-AXIS RAPID diffractometer. The diffraction data were collected at 93K within short measurement time just after a single crystal was obtained. Their crystal structures were determined in good R values (R1=0.039-0.044).
Investigation of the crystal structures revealed that both C-H...O type hydrogen bonds between acetic groups and van der Waals interactions between alkyl chains play important role to stabilize the structure. Iwo distinctive H-bond motif recognized were "dimer" (n=2,4,5) and "tetramer" (n=1,3) structures around inversion center. Because of this packing differences, methyl (n=1) and propyl (n=3) acetates have fewer number of H-bond comparing to other acetates. Therefore, lower m.p.of them is caused by this kind of inefficiency of crystal packing

  • Research Products

    (15 results)

All 2005 2004 2003

All Journal Article (15 results)

  • [Journal Article] CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND MELTING POINT CORRELATIONS OF ACETIC ESTERS2005

    • Author(s)
      Hidehiro Uekusa, Hirokazu Suzuki, Yuji Ohashi
    • Journal Title

      J.Appl.Cryst. (in preparation)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] A facile formation of anti-bredt's compounds from the reaction of 1-aroyl-2-aryl-3a,6a-diazapentalenes with acetylene-dicarboxylates2004

    • Author(s)
      H.Iida, H.Uekusa 他
    • Journal Title

      Heterocycles 64

      Pages: 447-461

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Deuterium migration mechanism in chiral thiolactam formation by neutron diffraction analysis2004

    • Author(s)
      T.Hosoya, H.Uekusa 他
    • Journal Title

      JAERI-Review 16

      Pages: 55-56

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Analysis of deuterium migration process in chiral thiolactam formation by neutron diffraction2004

    • Author(s)
      T.Hosoya, H.Uekusa 他
    • Journal Title

      JAERI-Review 16

      Pages: 42-43

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] X-ray analysis of excited-state structures often diplatinum complex anions in five crystals with different cations2004

    • Author(s)
      N.Yasuda, H.Uekusa 他
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan 77

      Pages: 933-944

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Deuterium migration mechanism in chiral thiolactam formation by neutron diffraction analysis.2004

    • Author(s)
      Hosoya, T., Uekusa, H., Ohashi, Y., Ohhara, T., Tanaka, I., Niimura, N.
    • Journal Title

      JAERI-Review 2004-016

      Pages: 55-56

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Analysis of deuterium migration process in chiral thiolactam formation by neutron diffraction.2004

    • Author(s)
      Hosoya, Takaaki, Uekusa, Hidehiro, Ohashi, Yuji, Ohhara, Takashi, Kimura, Hiroyuki, Noda, Yukio
    • Journal Title

      JAERI-Review 2004-016

      Pages: 42-43

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] A facile formation of anti-bredt's compounds from the reaction of 1-aroyl-2-aryl-3a,6a-diazapentalenes with acetylene-dicarboxylates2004

    • Author(s)
      H.Iida.H.Uekusa et al.
    • Journal Title

      Heterocycles 64

      Pages: 447-461

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] X-ray analysis of excited-state structures of the diplatinum complex anions in five crystals with different cations.2004

    • Author(s)
      Yasuda, Nobuhiro, Uekusa, Hidehiro, Ohashi, Yuji
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan 77(5)

      Pages: 933-944

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 2D detectors for small molecular crystals. Measurement procedures and tips2003

    • Author(s)
      Uekusa, Hidehiro
    • Journal Title

      Nippon Kessho Gakkaishi 45(4)

      Pages: 223-229

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Flip-flop motion of the vinyl group in crystals of 4-vinylbenzoic acid.2003

    • Author(s)
      Yasuda, Nobuhiro, Uekusa, Hidehiro
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Molecular Structure 647(1-3)

      Pages: 217-222

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Structures of 2-amino-2-deoxyascorbic acid and 2-amino-2-deoxyerythorbic acid.2003

    • Author(s)
      Imai, Tokiko, Yokoyama, Yoshihiro, Sekine, Akiko, Uekusa, Hidehiro, Ohashi, Yuji
    • Journal Title

      X-Ray Structure Analysis Online 19(Oct.-Dec.)

      Pages: X65-X66

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Crystal structure of a host-guest complex of gallic acid methyl ester and 5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazoline-3-one.2003

    • Author(s)
      Sekine, Akiko, Mitsumori, Takahiro, Uekusa, Hidehiro, Ohashi, Yuji, Yagi, Minoru
    • Journal Title

      X-Ray Structure Analysis Online 19(Oct.-Dec.)

      Pages: x47-x48

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 2D detectors for small molecular crystals. Measurement procedures and tips.2003

    • Author(s)
      Uekusa, Hidehiro
    • Journal Title

      Nippon Kessho Gakkaishi 45(4)

      Pages: 223-229

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Flip-flop motion of the vinyl group in crystals of 4-vinylbenzoic acid.2003

    • Author(s)
      Yasuda, Nobuhiro, Uekusa, Hidehiro, Ohashi, Yuji
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Molecular Structure 647(1-3)

      Pages: 217-222

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2006-07-11  

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