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High-pressure high-temperature phase diagram of organic crystal paracetamol

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Publication Date2016-01-06
JournalJournal of Physics Condensed Matter
AuthorsSpencer J. Smith, Jeffrey Montgomery, Yogesh K. Vohra
InstitutionsUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham
Citations9

High-pressure high-temperature (HPHT) Raman spectroscopy studies have been performed on the organic crystal paracetamol in a diamond anvil cell utilizing boron-doped heating diamond anvil. Isobaric measurements were conducted at pressures up to 8.5 GPa and temperature up to 520 K in five different experiments. Solid state phase transitions from monoclinic Form I → orthorhombic Form II were observed at various pressures and temperatures as well as transitions from Form II → unknown Form IV. The melting temperature for paracetamol was observed to increase with increasing pressures to 8.5 GPa. This new data is combined with previous ambient temperature high-pressure Raman and x-ray diffraction data to create the first HPHT phase diagram of paracetamol.