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 …

Modeling intermolecular interactions with exchange-hole dipole moment dispersion corrections to neural network potentials

NTP Tu, S Williamson, ER Johnson… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Neural network potentials (NNPs) are an innovative approach for calculating the potential
energy and forces of a chemical system. In principle, these methods are capable of …

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 …

Comparison of density-functional theory dispersion corrections for the DES15K database

CJ Nickerson, KR Bryenton, AJA Price… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
While density-functional theory (DFT) remains one of the most widely used tools in
computational chemistry, most functionals fail to properly account for the effects of London …

[HTML][HTML] The seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction: structure ranking methods

LM Hunnisett, N Francia, J Nyman, NS Abraham… - Structural …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
A seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction has been organized by the Cambridge
Crystallographic Data Centre. The results are presented in two parts, with this second part …

How accurate are simulations and experiments for the lattice energies of molecular crystals?

F Della Pia, A Zen, D Alfè, A Michaelides - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Molecular crystals play a central role in a wide range of scientific fields, including
pharmaceuticals and organic semiconductor devices. However, they are challenging …

Hybrid classical/machine-learning force fields for the accurate description of molecular condensed-phase systems

M Thürlemann, S Riniker - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Electronic structure methods offer in principle accurate predictions of molecular properties,
however, their applicability is limited by computational costs. Empirical methods are …

Accelerated organic crystal structure prediction with genetic algorithms and machine learning

A Kadan, K Ryczko, A Wildman, R Wang… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present a high-throughput, end-to-end pipeline for organic crystal structure prediction
(CSP)─ the problem of identifying the stable crystal structures that will form from a given …

Are Elastic Properties of Molecular Crystals within Reach of Density Functional Theory? Accuracy, Robustness, and Reproducibility of Current Approaches

KM Bal, A Collas - Crystal Growth & Design, 2024 - ACS Publications
Solid form selection and design of crystalline small molecule active pharmaceutical
ingredients (APIs) would benefit from computational prediction and rationalization of the …

Even faster exact exchange for solids via tensor hypercontraction

A Rettig, J Lee, M Head-Gordon - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hybrid density functional theory (DFT) remains intractable for large periodic systems due to
the demanding computational cost of exact exchange. We apply the tensor hypercontraction …