The effect of hydrostatic Pressure on the polymorphic transformation and melting of
cis-unsaturated fatty acids, palmitoleic acid (POA), oleic acid (OA), asclepic acid (APA), petroselinic acid (PSA) and erucic acid (EA), were investigated by means of a high-pressure differential thermal analysis. The temperature range of α form of OA and POA becomes wider as the pressure is increased, which is the same tendency as the high pressure phase of polyethylene. On the contrary, those of α
1 form of EA and high pressure crystallized α
p form of APA are narrowed by increasing pressure. This is similar trend to the hexagonal (rotator) phase of n-alkane. The values of Δ
V on melting and conformational order-disorder transitions of ω chain were estimated from the Clausius-Clapeyron equation. The Δ
V on γ-α transitions for POA, OA, and APA are almost the same (5.6-5.9cm
3/mol), but that on γ
1-α
1 transition for EA is larger than those for the former acids. New polymorphs were formed for APA by the melt-crystallizatoin under high pressure above about 110MPa.
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