Crystal engineering of pharmaceutical cocrystals in the discovery and development of improved drugs

G Bolla, B Sarma, AK Nangia - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The subject of crystal engineering started in the 1970s with the study of topochemical
reactions in the solid state. A broad chemical definition of crystal engineering was published …

Mechanochemistry: opportunities for new and cleaner synthesis

SL James, CJ Adams, C Bolm, D Braga… - Chemical Society …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The aim of this critical review is to provide a broad but digestible overview of
mechanochemical synthesis, ie reactions conducted by grinding solid reactants together …

Predicting crystal form stability under real-world conditions

D Firaha, YM Liu, J van de Streek, K Sasikumar… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The physicochemical properties of molecular crystals, such as solubility, stability,
compactability, melting behaviour and bioavailability, depend on their crystal form. In silico …

Static and lattice vibrational energy differences between polymorphs

J Nyman, GM Day - CrystEngComm, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A computational study of 1061 experimentally determined crystal structures of 508
polymorphic organic molecules has been performed with state-of-the-art lattice energy …

Predicting crystal structures of organic compounds

SL Price - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Currently, organic crystal structure prediction (CSP) methods are based on searching for the
most thermodynamically stable crystal structure, making various approximations in …

Hansen solubility parameter as a tool to predict cocrystal formation

MA Mohammad, A Alhalaweh, SP Velaga - International journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to investigate whether the miscibility of a drug and coformer,
as predicted by Hansen solubility parameters (HSPs), can indicate cocrystal formation and …

Frontiers of molecular crystal structure prediction for pharmaceuticals and functional organic materials

GJO Beran - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The reliability of organic molecular crystal structure prediction has improved tremendously in
recent years. Crystal structure predictions for small, mostly rigid molecules are quickly …

Evaluating the energetic driving force for cocrystal formation

CR Taylor, GM Day - Crystal Growth & Design, 2018 - ACS Publications
We present a periodic density functional theory study of the stability of 350 organic
cocrystals relative to their pure single-component structures, the largest study of cocrystals …

Significant progress in predicting the crystal structures of small organic molecules–a report on the fourth blind test

GM Day, TG Cooper, AJ Cruz-Cabeza… - … Section B: Structural …, 2009 - journals.iucr.org
We report on the organization and outcome of the fourth blind test of crystal structure
prediction, an international collaborative project organized to evaluate the present state in …

The seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction: structure generation methods

LM Hunnisett, J Nyman, N Francia, NS Abraham… - Structural …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
A seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction was organized by the Cambridge
Crystallographic Data Centre featuring seven target systems of varying complexity: a silicon …