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Article Dans Une Revue CrystEngComm Année : 2012

Insights into the crystal structure, polymorphism and thermal behavior of menthol optical isomers and racemates

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The physico-chemical properties of the levo- and dextrorotatory menthol isomers as well as the corresponding racemic compound were studied using X-ray single-crystal or powder diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry experiments. As a result, the not yet determined crystal structure of DL-menthol was solved. Moreover, the stable and metastable experimental temperature-composition phase diagrams of the L-menthol/D-menthol binary system were determined. The thermodynamic relative stability of the different menthol polymorphs was also established. The present paper provides new physical, chemical and thermodynamic data of L-, D- and DL-menthol and offers new insight into their polymorphism as well as into the levorotatory-dextrorotatory menthol interactions. Both the thermodynamic and crystallographic approaches demonstrate unambiguously that racemic menthol is a racemate.
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hal-00738241 , version 1 (04-01-2018)

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Yohann Corvis, Philippe Négrier, Stéphane Massip, Jean-Michel Leger, Philippe Espeau. Insights into the crystal structure, polymorphism and thermal behavior of menthol optical isomers and racemates. CrystEngComm, 2012, 14 (20), pp.7055-7064. ⟨10.1039/c2ce26025e⟩. ⟨hal-00738241⟩

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