Syntheses and chemical transformations of glycolide and lactide as monomers for biodegradable polymers

V Botvin, S Karaseva, D Salikova… - Polymer Degradation and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Glycolide and lactide function as the commonly used diester monomers for the preparation
of high-molecular weight, degradation-prone (co-) polyesters. Both glycolide and lactide …

[PDF][PDF] MrPIXEL: automated execution of Pixel calculations via the Mercury interface

MG Reeves, PA Wood, S Parsons - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - journals.iucr.org
The interpretation of crystal structures in terms of intermolecular interaction energies
enables phase stability and polymorphism to be rationalized in terms of quantitative …

Crystallography under high pressures

SA Moggach, IDH Oswald - … in Chemical Crystallography I: History and …, 2020 - Springer
This chapter highlights the area of crystallography of molecular systems under high-
pressure conditions. It is an area of crystallography that has seen a rapid expansion over the …

Three new polymorphs of 1, 8-diacetylpyrene: a material with packing-dependent luminescence properties and a testbed for crystal structure prediction

D Tchoń, D Bowskill, I Sugden, P Piotrowski… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
1, 8-Diacetylpyrene (2′′ AP) is an aromatic compound exhibiting aggregation-induced
emission enhancement, with crystal structure predominantly stabilized by dispersive …

Spatial and temporal visualization of polymorphic transformations in pharmaceutical tablets

I Oswald, J Gasol-Cardona, MR Ward… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
X‐ray Diffraction Computed Tomography (XRD‐CT) represents a cutting‐edge method for
non‐destructive material analysis, offering the unique capability of providing molecular‐level …

The effect of pressure on halogen bonding in 4-iodobenzonitrile

N Giordano, S Afanasjevs, CM Beavers, CL Hobday… - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
The crystal structure of 4-iodobenzonitrile, which is monoclinic (space group I 2/a) under
ambient conditions, contains chains of molecules linked through C≡ N··· I halogen-bonds …

Microseismic events cause significant pH drops in groundwater

M Stillings, RJ Lunn, S Pytharouli… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Earthquakes cause rock fracturing, opening new flow pathways which can result in the
mixing of previously isolated geofluids with differing geochemistries. Here, we present the …

Reaction of acetylenedicarboxylic acid made easy: high-pressure route for polymerization

A Delori, IB Hutchison, CL Bull, NP Funnell… - Crystal Growth & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A breakthrough has been achieved in improving the efficiency of solid-state polymerization
of acetylenedicarboxylic acid (ADCA). Traditional solid-state polymerization of ADCA is …

Discovery and recovery of delta p-aminobenzoic acid

MR Ward, S Younis, AJ Cruz-Cabeza, CL Bull… - …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We explore the polymorphism of p-aminobenzoic acid (pABA) under high-pressure
conditions. We have been able to isolate a new high-pressure form (δ-pABA) at pressures …

Compression of glycolide-h4 to 6 GPa

IB Hutchison, CL Bull, WG Marshall… - … Section B: Structural …, 2017 - journals.iucr.org
This study details the structural characterization of glycolide-h4 as a function of pressure to 6
GPa using neutron powder diffraction on the PEARL instrument at ISIS Neutron and Muon …