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Building up co-crystals: structural motif consistencies across families of co-crystals
Seaton, Colin C.
Seaton, Colin C.
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The creation of co-crystals as a route to creating new pharmaceutical phases with modified or defined physicochemical properties is an area of intense research. Much of the current research has focused on creating new phases for numerous active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to alter physical properties such as low solubilities, enhancing processability or stability. Such studies have identified suitable co-formers and common bonding motifs to aid with the design of new co-crystals but understanding how the changes in the molecular structure of the components are reflected in the packing and resulting properties is still lacking. This lack of insight means that the design and growth of new co-crystals is still a largely empirical process with co-formers selected and then attempts to grow the different materials undertaken to evaluate the resulting properties. This work will report on the results of a combination of crystal structure database analysis with computational chemistry studies to identify what structural features are retained across a selection of families of co-crystals with common components. The competition between different potential hydrogen bonding motifs was evaluated using ab initio quantum mechanical calculations and this was related to the commonality in the packing motifs when observed. It is found while the stronger local bonding motifs are often retained within systems, the balance of weaker long-range packing forces gives rise to many subtle shifts in packing leading to greater challenges in the prediction of final crystal structures.
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Seaton CC (2021) Building up co-crystals: structural motif consistencies across families of co-crystals. Proceedings. 78(1): 45.
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