Combined crystal structure prediction and high-pressure crystallization in rational pharmaceutical polymorph screening

MA Neumann, J Van De Streek, FPA Fabbiani… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Organic molecules, such as pharmaceuticals, agro-chemicals and pigments, frequently form
several crystal polymorphs with different physicochemical properties. Finding polymorphs …

Inaccurate conformational energies still hinder crystal structure prediction in flexible organic molecules

C Greenwell, GJO Beran - Crystal Growth & Design, 2020 - ACS Publications
Crystal structure prediction driven by density functional theory has become an increasingly
useful tool for the pharmaceutical industry and others interested in understanding and …

Reliable and practical computational description of molecular crystal polymorphs

J Hoja, HY Ko, MA Neumann, R Car, RA DiStasio Jr… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Reliable prediction of the polymorphic energy landscape of a molecular crystal would yield
profound insight into drug development in terms of the existence and likelihood of late …

Prediction of the relative free energies of drug polymorphs above zero kelvin

M Yang, E Dybeck, G Sun, C Peng… - Crystal Growth & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Crystal structure prediction (CSP) calculations can reduce risk and improve efficiency during
drug development. Traditionally, CSP calculations use lattice energies computed through …

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 …

Evaluating a crystal energy landscape in the context of industrial polymorph screening

SZ Ismail, CL Anderton, RCB Copley… - Crystal growth & …, 2013 - ACS Publications
To evaluate how the calculation of a crystal energy landscape can be used in the solid-form
screening of pharmaceuticals, a Knowledge Transfer Secondment between …

The potential of computed crystal energy landscapes to aid solid-form development

SL Price, SM Reutzel-Edens - Drug Discovery Today, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Crystal structure prediction studies have been carried out with the pharmaceutical
industry.•Crystal energy landscapes can help to define solid form landscapes.•Crystal …

Systematic finite-temperature reduction of crystal energy landscapes

NF Francia, LS Price, J Nyman, SL Price… - Crystal Growth & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Crystal structure prediction methods are prone to overestimate the number of potential
polymorphs of organic molecules. In this work, we aim to reduce the overprediction by …

Minimizing polymorphic risk through cooperative computational and experimental exploration

CR Taylor, MT Mulvee, DS Perenyi… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We combine state-of-the-art computational crystal structure prediction (CSP) techniques with
a wide range of experimental crystallization methods to understand and explore crystal …

Crystal structure prediction of flexible pharmaceutical-like molecules: density functional tight-binding as an intermediate optimisation method and for free energy …

L Iuzzolino, P McCabe, SL Price… - Faraday …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Successful methodologies for theoretical crystal structure prediction (CSP) on flexible
pharmaceutical-like organic molecules explore the lattice energy surface to find a set of …