Solid-state structure and temperature/evacuation-induced dehydration of sodium saccharinate 1.875 hydrate

Panče Naumov, Gligor Jovanovski, Orhideja Grupče, Branko Kaitner, A. David Rae, Seik Weng Ng

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Abstract

Sweet solution: The P21/n (Z=64) structure of the commercial sweetener sodium saccharinate, which has an unusually large unit cell of 15.6 nm3, is an occupational and displacive modulation of an idealized C2/m (Z=8) structure that results from a structural misfit. This determination (see picture) shows-after more than 150 years of use of the compound as a food additive-that it is better regarded as a 1.875 hydrate than a dihydrate.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1251-1254
Number of pages4
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume44
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 11 2005

Keywords

  • Artifical sweeteners
  • Hydrates
  • IR spectroscopy
  • Structure elucidation
  • X-ray diffraction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Catalysis
  • General Chemistry

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