Open questions in organic crystal polymorphism

AJ Cruz-Cabeza, N Feeder, RJ Davey - Communications Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Polymorphs, crystals with different structure and properties but the same molecular
composition, arise from the subtle interplay between thermodynamics and kinetics during …

How many more polymorphs of ROY remain undiscovered

GJO Beran, IJ Sugden, C Greenwell, DH Bowskill… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
With 12 crystal forms, 5-methyl-2-[(2-nitrophenyl) amino]-3-thiophenecabonitrile (aka ROY)
holds the current record for the largest number of fully characterized organic crystal …

Challenging the Ostwald rule of stages in mechanochemical cocrystallisation

LS Germann, M Arhangelskis, M Etter… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Mechanochemistry provides an efficient, but still poorly understood route to synthesize and
screen for polymorphs of organic solids. We present a hitherto unexplored effect of the …

Phosphangulene: a molecule for all chemists

A Heskia, T Maris, JD Wuest - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Phosphangulene (1) is a hexacyclic triarylphosphine with a distinctive conical
shape and other features that allow the compound to be viewed from diverse perspectives …

Overcoming the difficulties of predicting conformational polymorph energetics in molecular crystals via correlated wavefunction methods

C Greenwell, JL McKinley, P Zhang, Q Zeng, G Sun… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular crystal structure prediction is increasingly being applied to study the solid form
landscapes of larger, more flexible pharmaceutical molecules. Despite many successes in …

Multifidelity statistical machine learning for molecular crystal structure prediction

O Egorova, R Hafizi, DC Woods… - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The prediction of crystal structures from first-principles requires highly accurate energies for
large numbers of putative crystal structures. High accuracy of solid state density functional …

A theoretical framework for the design of molecular crystal engines

CJ Cook, W Li, BF Lui, TJ Gately, RO Al-Kaysi… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Photomechanical molecular crystals have garnered attention for their ability to transform
light into mechanical work, but difficulties in characterizing the structural changes and …

Solvent Polarity Influenced Polymorph Selection of Polar Aromatic Molecules

D Bischof, MW Tripp, SI Ivlev, U Koert… - Crystal Growth & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The crystallization and polymorph control of rigid polar molecules by solvent polarity was
investigated for the case of 1, 2, 9, 10, 11-pentafluorotetracene (F5TET), an extended π …

Noncovalent π–π dimerization based on acridine and acid-responsive luminescence switching

S Wang, Y Shen, X Zhang, H Liu, ST Zhang, W Li… - Dyes and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Noncovalent dimerization usually can induce distinct luminescence properties from those of
monomer, but it is quite difficult to achieve in solid state, especially in films. Two acridine …

Influence of Solvent Selection on the Crystallizability and Polymorphic Selectivity Associated with the Formation of the “Disappeared” Form I Polymorph of Ritonavir

C Wang, CY Ma, RS Hong, TD Turner… - Molecular …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The comparative crystallizability and polymorphic selectivity of ritonavir, a novel protease
inhibitor for the treatment of acquired immune-deficiency syndrome, as a function of solvent …