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168 M.R. Caira<br />

approach is visual representation of phase transformations. Figure 2 illustrates<br />

MD-<strong>de</strong>rived images of a crystall<strong>in</strong>e cluster of 188 molecules of t-butyl chlori<strong>de</strong><br />

at various stages of freez<strong>in</strong>g. MD simulations show that when sufficiently supercooled,<br />

the tetragonal phase spontaneously transforms to a lower temperature,<br />

or<strong>de</strong>red monocl<strong>in</strong>ic phase. Diffraction patterns computed from the MD molecular<br />

pack<strong>in</strong>g were consistent with experimental neutron pow<strong>de</strong>r patterns for<br />

this phase.<br />

Other <strong>in</strong>vestigators [45] have recently <strong>de</strong>signed a numerical mo<strong>de</strong>l to <strong>de</strong>scribe<br />

nucleation and growth of polymorphs with the aim of calculat<strong>in</strong>g the<br />

temporal sequences of precipitation and phase transformation <strong>in</strong> metastable<br />

solutions of polymorphic substances. Another group has recently mo<strong>de</strong>lled the<br />

formation and aggregation of polymorphs <strong>in</strong> cont<strong>in</strong>uous precipitation [46].<br />

Consi<strong>de</strong>ration was given to the simultaneous growth and agglomeration of two<br />

different polymorphs as well as the case of nucleation of a s<strong>in</strong>gle polymorph<br />

which subsequently transforms <strong>in</strong>to a second one. The results <strong>in</strong>dicated that the<br />

ratio of the nucleation rates, the ratio of the growth rates, and the aggregation<br />

ten<strong>de</strong>ncies <strong>de</strong>term<strong>in</strong>ed polymorphic product composition as well as particle<br />

size distributions. This study is important s<strong>in</strong>ce simultaneous precipitation of<br />

different polymorphs is encountered frequently <strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>dustrial crystallizations.<br />

A mathematical phase-field mo<strong>de</strong>l for the k<strong>in</strong>etics of isothermal polymorphic<br />

crystallization has recently been proposed [47], accord<strong>in</strong>g to which crystallization<br />

<strong>in</strong>volves rapid relaxation of the metastable state followed by nucleation<br />

and growth of the polycrystall<strong>in</strong>e phase. Computer simulations were used to<br />

obta<strong>in</strong> results which could be tested experimentally us<strong>in</strong>g X-ray scatter<strong>in</strong>g experiments.<br />

Growth rates of different polymorphic polymers have also been<br />

<strong>in</strong>vestigated [48]. Simultaneous <strong>de</strong>velopment of spherulites of different polymorphs<br />

occurs at different rates un<strong>de</strong>r isothermal conditions. From observation<br />

of <strong>in</strong>terspherulitic boundaries between the a- and g-forms of polypivalolactone,<br />

a b c<br />

Fig. 2 a – c. Images of a crystall<strong>in</strong>e cluster of t-butyl chlori<strong>de</strong> molecules at various stages of<br />

cool<strong>in</strong>g, look<strong>in</strong>g down the threefold molecular axis: a orientationally disor<strong>de</strong>red tetragonal<br />

phase at 130 K; b nucleus of monocl<strong>in</strong>ic phase grow<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> tetragonal phase at 80 K; c or<strong>de</strong>red<br />

monocl<strong>in</strong>ic phase at 50 K after transformation. Surface molecules tend to be disor<strong>de</strong>red at all<br />

temperatures. (Repr<strong>in</strong>ted with permission from [44], copyright 1995 American Chemical<br />

Society)

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