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Towards ab initio screening of co-crystal formation through lattice energy calculations and crystal structure prediction of nicotinamide, isonicotinamide, picolinamide and paracetamol multi-component crystals
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Chan, H. C. Stephen Kendrick, John Neumann, Marcus A. Leusen, Frank J. J. |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | Co-crystallisation of a drug with another molecule to form a new crystalline material is an appealing route to enhance physical properties. Despite mounting research effort, there is still considerable uncertainty whether a given co-crystal will form. Previous attempts to use lattice energy calculations to investigate whether a potential co-crystal is thermodynamically more stable than its pure co-former crystals have been inconclusive. In the present study, dispersion-corrected density functional theory is used to minimise the lattice energies of all known co-crystals and salts of nicotinamide, isonicotinamide and picolinamide, and their corresponding neutral co-formers (excluding any organometallic compounds). Out of the resulting 102 co-crystals and salts, 99 (97%) are found to be more stable than their corresponding co-formers. In addition, full crystal structure prediction studies show that two paracetamol co-crystals are very unstable in comparison to their co-formers, thus explaining why these co-crystals have not been observed experimentally. These results demonstrate that a simple yet accurate thermodynamic approach can predict reliably whether a co-crystal can be formed. |
| Starting Page | 3799 |
| Ending Page | 3807 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1039/C3CE40107C |
| Volume Number | 15 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/ce/c3/c3ce40107c/c3ce40107c.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CE40107C |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
