In this lecture we present a stereochemical approach to crystal growth and dissolution and processes related to topochemical polymerizations in the solid phase. Understanding of such processes should take into consideration the packing arrangements of the crystals involved, the texture and kinetics of growth of the faces that delineate these crystals as well as the nature of the solvent where the crystals are grown or reacted and the structures of possible supramolecular architecures formed in the solution by the molecules undergoing crystallization. This stereochemical methodology is represented by the following three examples: (i) The role played by the addition of methanol or ethanol in the precipitation of the metastable β‐form of glycine, (ii) The resolution of several α‐amino acids salts that crystallize in enantiomorphous space groups, however, are composed form alternating lamellae of opposite handedness, and (iii) Polymerization reaction in crystals where the short chains formed in the course of the reaction self‐assemble and induce the formation of isotactic polymers.
Skip Nav Destination
Article navigation
14 June 2007
PERSPECTIVES ON INORGANIC, ORGANIC, AND BIOLOGICAL CRYSTAL GROWTH: FROM FUNDAMENTALS TO APPLICATIONS: Basedon the lectures presented at the 13th International Summer School on Crystal Growth
5-11 August 2007
Park City, Utah (USA)
Research Article|
June 14 2007
Stereochemical Studies on Nucleation, Growth and Reactivity of Organic Crystals
Meir Lahav;
Meir Lahav
Department of Material Science and Interfaces, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100‐Rehovot, Israel
Search for other works by this author on:
Isabelle Weissbuch;
Isabelle Weissbuch
Department of Material Science and Interfaces, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100‐Rehovot, Israel
Search for other works by this author on:
Leslie Leiserowitz
Leslie Leiserowitz
Department of Material Science and Interfaces, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100‐Rehovot, Israel
Search for other works by this author on:
AIP Conf. Proc. 916, 401–415 (2007)
Citation
Meir Lahav, Isabelle Weissbuch, Leslie Leiserowitz; Stereochemical Studies on Nucleation, Growth and Reactivity of Organic Crystals. AIP Conf. Proc. 14 June 2007; 916 (1): 401–415. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2751926
Download citation file:
Pay-Per-View Access
$40.00
Sign In
You could not be signed in. Please check your credentials and make sure you have an active account and try again.
Citing articles via
Inkjet- and flextrail-printing of silicon polymer-based inks for local passivating contacts
Zohreh Kiaee, Andreas Lösel, et al.
Design of a 100 MW solar power plant on wetland in Bangladesh
Apu Kowsar, Sumon Chandra Debnath, et al.
Effect of coupling agent type on the self-cleaning and anti-reflective behaviour of advance nanocoating for PV panels application
Taha Tareq Mohammed, Hadia Kadhim Judran, et al.
Related Content
Mechanisms for the inversion of chirality: Global reaction route mapping of stereochemical pathways in a probable chiral extraterrestrial molecule, 2-aminopropionitrile
J. Chem. Phys. (February 2015)
Triggering dynamics of acetylene topochemical polymerization
Matter Radiat. Extremes (August 2023)
Raman scattering spectra and ferroelectric properties of Bi 1 − x Nd x Fe O 3 ( x = – 0.2 ) multiferroic ceramics
J. Appl. Phys. (March 2007)
Structural modeling of troponin I, slow skeletal muscle in Homo sapiens (Human)
AIP Conference Proceedings (November 2022)
Physical Mechanisms of Crystal Growth Modification by Biomolecules
AIP Conference Proceedings (July 2010)