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Crystalline Curcumin bioMOF Obtained by Precipitation in Supercritical CO2 and Structural Determination by Electron Diffraction Tomography
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posted on 2018-07-19, 00:00 authored by Nuria Portolés-Gil, Arianna Lanza, Núria Aliaga-Alcalde, José A. Ayllón, Mauro Gemmi, Enrico Mugnaioli, Ana M. López-Periago, Concepción DomingoThis
article analyzes the use of supercritical CO2 green
technology in the reactive crystallization processes involved in the
formation of a bioMOF that contains curcumin and ZnII metal
centers. A new phase with a [Zn(curcumin)]n composition, termed sc-CCMOF-1, is presented. The developed scCO2 protocol allows high yields of the small-sized crystalline
material, which was characterized by the use of the recently developed
electron diffraction tomography method applied to the resolution of
submicrometric crystals. A remarkable 3D macrostructure with a complex
morphology was obtained. To analyze the crystallization mechanism,
multiple identical runs were performed under similar experimental
conditions to study in each time period the crystal growth progress
ex situ by X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy. These
experiments indicated that the process to achieve the sc-CCMOF-1 in
a crystalline form involves the formation of amorphous or semicrystalline
metastable phases that derived into hierarchical stable and crystalline
nanoflower aggregates. In addition, a potential therapeutic application
of the bioMOF has been tested by studying the released of the curcumin
molecule at neutral pH.
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Crystalline Curcumin bioMOF ObtainedSupercritical CO 2crystallization mechanismnanoflower aggregatesX-ray diffractionformationcrystal growth progress3 D macrostructureelectron diffraction tomography methodsubmicrometric crystalsZn II metal centersCO 2scCO 2 protocolscanning electron microscopyStructural DeterminationElectron Diffraction Tomographytime periodsc-CCMOFsemicrystalline metastable phasescurcumin moleculereactive crystallization processes
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