NMR as a “gold standard” method in drug design and discovery

AH Emwas, K Szczepski, BG Poulson, K Chandra… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Studying disease models at the molecular level is vital for drug development in order to
improve treatment and prevent a wide range of human pathologies. Microbial infections are …

129Xe NMR on Porous Materials: Basic Principles and Recent Applications

D Wisser, M Hartmann - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A large number of functional and catalytic materials exhibit porosity, often on different length
scales and with a hierarchical structure. The assessment of pore sizes, pore geometry, and …

Chemical shifts in molecular solids by machine learning

FM Paruzzo, A Hofstetter, F Musil, S De… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Due to their strong dependence on local atonic environments, NMR chemical shifts are
among the most powerful tools for strucutre elucidation of powdered solids or amorphous …

Hyper-CEST NMR of metal organic polyhedral cages reveals hidden diastereomers with diverse guest exchange kinetics

J Jayapaul, S Komulainen, VV Zhivonitko… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Guest capture and release are important properties of self-assembling nanostructures. Over
time, a significant fraction of guests might engage in short-lived states with different …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Accuracy and reproducibility in crystal structure prediction: the curious case of ROY

J Nyman, L Yu, SM Reutzel-Edens - CrystEngComm, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We present the results of a new crystal structure prediction of ROY performed with the
GRACE program, including the first wide search for Z′= 2 structures. In addition, we present …

[HTML][HTML] Application of computational methods to the design and characterisation of porous molecular materials

JD Evans, KE Jelfs, GM Day, CJ Doonan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Composed from discrete units, porous molecular materials (PMMs) possess unique
properties not observed for conventional, extended, solids, such as solution processibility …

A Bayesian approach to NMR crystal structure determination

EA Engel, A Anelli, A Hofstetter, F Paruzzo… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is particularly well suited to determine
the structure of molecules and materials in powdered form. Structure determination usually …

Rapid structure determination of molecular solids using chemical shifts directed by unambiguous prior constraints

A Hofstetter, M Balodis, FM Paruzzo… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
NMR-based crystallography approaches involving the combination of crystal structure
prediction methods, ab initio calculated chemical shifts and solid-state NMR experiments are …

Inside information on xenon adsorption in porous organic cages by NMR

S Komulainen, J Roukala, VV Zhivonitko, MA Javed… - Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
A solid porous molecular crystal formed from an organic cage, CC3, has unprecedented
performance for the separation of rare gases. Here, xenon was used as an internal reporter …