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 …

Emerging landscape of computational modeling in pharmaceutical development

YA Abramov, G Sun, Q Zeng - Journal of Chemical Information …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Computational chemistry applications have become an integral part of the drug discovery
workflow over the past 35 years. However, computational modeling in support of drug …

A generally applicable atomic-charge dependent London dispersion correction

E Caldeweyher, S Ehlert, A Hansen… - The Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The so-called D4 model is presented for the accurate computation of London dispersion
interactions in density functional theory approximations (DFT-D4) and generally for atomistic …

B97-3c: A revised low-cost variant of the B97-D density functional method

JG Brandenburg, C Bannwarth, A Hansen… - The Journal of chemical …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A revised version of the well-established B97-D density functional approximation with
general applicability for chemical properties of large systems is proposed. Like B97-D, it is …

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 …

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 …

XDM-corrected hybrid DFT with numerical atomic orbitals predicts molecular crystal lattice energies with unprecedented accuracy

AJA Price, A Otero-de-la-Roza, ER Johnson - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular crystals are important for many applications, including energetic materials,
organic semiconductors, and the development and commercialization of pharmaceuticals …

Advances in density-functional calculations for materials modeling

RJ Maurer, C Freysoldt, AM Reilly… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
During the past two decades, density-functional (DF) theory has evolved from niche
applications for simple solid-state materials to become a workhorse method for studying a …

Is zeroth order crystal structure prediction (CSP_0) coming to maturity? What should we aim for in an ideal crystal structure prediction code?

SL Price - Faraday discussions, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Crystal structure prediction based on searching for the global minimum in the lattice energy
(CSP_0) is growing in use for guiding the discovery of new materials, for example, new …

Fast and accurate quantum Monte Carlo for molecular crystals

A Zen, JG Brandenburg, J Klimeš… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Computer simulation plays a central role in modern-day materials science. The utility of a
given computational approach depends largely on the balance it provides between …