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Dehydration Mechanism and Crystallisation Behaviour of Lactose

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Abstract

The dehydration mechanism of α-lactose monohydrate was investigated by several techniques and interpreted on the basis of structural data. Whatever the dehydration conditions (heating or use of hygroscopic organic solvents), the departure of water molecules occurs cooperatively in channels parallel to the c axis of the initial structure. Subsequently, the reorganization leads to the closest packing (hygroscopic metastable form, LαH) under heating or to the stable anhydrous form (LαS), probably via a nucleation and growth process in ethanol. The use of acetone as dehydrating solvent on single crystals of α-lactose monohydrate led to the unexpected formation of single crystals of the anomeric β-lactose at room temperature, from which the crystal structure of β-lactose could be accurately re-determined. Recrystallization experiments of anhydrous lactose allowed to prepare N-methylpyrrolidinone and DMSO solvates of α-lactose.

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Garnier, S., Petit, S. & Coquerel, G. Dehydration Mechanism and Crystallisation Behaviour of Lactose. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 68, 489–502 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016087702409

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