Alia Iqbal, A. Mehmood, S. Noureen, C. Lecomte, Maqsood Ahmed
{"title":"Crystal engineering of co-crystal of nicotinic acid and pyrogallol: an experimental and theoretical electron density analysis","authors":"Alia Iqbal, A. Mehmood, S. Noureen, C. Lecomte, Maqsood Ahmed","doi":"10.1107/s2052520621009124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s2052520621009124","url":null,"abstract":"Experimental electron density analysis by means of high-resolution X-ray diffraction data up to sinθ/λmax = 1.11 Å−1 at 100 (1) K has been performed to analyze the detailed structure and the strength of intermolecular interactions responsible for the formation of a new solid form of nicotinic acid (NA), cocrystallized with pyrogallol (PY). There are two NA–PY units in the asymmetric unit. The experimental results are compared with the results obtained from theoretical structure factors modeled using periodic boundary DFT calculations. Both refinements were carried out using the Hansen and Coppens multipolar formalism (in MoPro program). The non-centrosymmetric and polar nature of the crystal system rendered the multipolar refinement challenging which was addressed by involving the transferability principle. This study highlights the significance of the transferability principle in electron density modeling in non-routine situations. The 2:2 cocrystal of NA–PY exhibits a zigzag, brickwall and sheet-like layered structure in three dimensions and is stabilized by strong intra- and inter-molecular hydrogen bonding through N—H...O and O—H...O bonds, some of them due to the zwitterion nature of NA as well as weak interactions between the PY molecules. Ranking these interactions via topological analysis of the electron density shows the leading role of the NA–NA substructure which drives the organization of the cocrystals. These strong interactions between the NA zwitterions may explain why Z′ = 2.","PeriodicalId":7080,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials","volume":"1974 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90240379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low-temperature phase transition and highpressure phase stability of 1H-pyrazole-1carboxamidine nitrate","authors":"Piotr Rejnhardt, M. Drozd, M. Daszkiewicz","doi":"10.1107/s2052520621010970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s2052520621010970","url":null,"abstract":"The phase transition observed in a temperature-dependent experiment at 174 K is unachievable under high-pressure conditions. Negative thermal expansion for phase (II) and negative compressibility for phase (I) were observed. A new salt of 1H-pyrazole-1-carboxamidine, (HPyCA)NO3, for guanylation reaction was obtained in a crystalline form. The compound crystallizes in monoclinic space group P21/c and a phase transition at 174 K to triclinic modification P\u0000 1 was found. An unusual increase of the unit-cell volume was observed just after transition. Although the volume decreases upon cooling, it remains higher down to 160 K in comparison to the unit-cell volume of phase (I). The mechanism of the phase transition is connected with a minor movement of the nitrate anions. The triclinic phase was unreachable at room-temperature high-pressure conditions up to 1.27 GPa. On further compression, delamination of the crystal was observed. Phase (I) exhibits negative linear compressibility, whereas abnormal behaviour of the b unit-cell parameter upon cooling was observed, indicating negative thermal linear expansion. The unusual nature of the compound is associated with the two-dimensional hydrogen-bonding network, which is less susceptible to deformation than stacking interactions connecting the layers of hydrogen bonds. Infrared spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry measurements were used to investigate the changes of intermolecular interactions during the phase transition.","PeriodicalId":7080,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86744276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structures and phase transitions in barium sodium niobate tungsten bronze (BNN)","authors":"Thomas A. Whittle, C. Howard, S. Schmid","doi":"10.1107/s2052520621010301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s2052520621010301","url":null,"abstract":"The room-temperature structure of the filled tetragonal tungsten bronze, Ba2NaNb5O15 (BNN), has been the subject of a number of studies, and these studies have given an almost corresponding number of different results. From a group theoretical examination of the different possibilities and a review of the published experimental results we conclude that the room-temperature structure is that proposed by Labbé et al. [J. Phys. Condens. Matter (1989), 2, 25–43] in the space group Bbm2 (Ama2 in standard setting) on a 2sqrt{2}a × sqrt{2}a × 2c cell. Upon heating, the structure remains ferroelectric but becomes tetragonal (space group P4bm) at 550 K, then paraelectric (space group P4/mbm) at and above 860 K.","PeriodicalId":7080,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73979827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gianpiero Gallo, M. Terban, I. Moudrakovski, T. Huber, M. Etter, M. Ernst, B. Hinrichsen, R. Dinnebier
{"title":"A previously unknown cyclic alkanolamine and molecular ranking using the pair distribution function","authors":"Gianpiero Gallo, M. Terban, I. Moudrakovski, T. Huber, M. Etter, M. Ernst, B. Hinrichsen, R. Dinnebier","doi":"10.1107/S2052520621010088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520621010088","url":null,"abstract":"The crystal structure of a previously unknown small heterocyclic alkanolamine was determined by X-ray powder diffraction. Total scattering analysis of small organic molecules is shown to be useful to help disambiguate spectroscopic and elemental analyses.","PeriodicalId":7080,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials","volume":"60 1","pages":"986 - 995"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89132656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can the results of quantum refinement be improved with a continuum-solvation model?","authors":"J. Bergmann, E. Oksanen, U. Ryde","doi":"10.1107/S2052520621009574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520621009574","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum refinement has been shown to be a powerful approach to interpret and improve macromolecular crystal structures. Previous studies have shown that the results of quantum refinement can be improved if the charge of the quantum mechanical (QM) system is reduced by adding neutralizing groups. Here it is shown that a similar improvement can be obtained if the original highly charged QM system is instead immersed in a continuum solvent in the QM calculations.","PeriodicalId":7080,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials","volume":"34 1","pages":"906 - 918"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77805987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigation of polar crystalline materials containing hydrochlorothiazide: electron density distribution and optical properties","authors":"J. Wojnarska, M. Gryl, T. Seidler, K. Stadnicka","doi":"10.1107/s2052520621009914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s2052520621009914","url":null,"abstract":"The polar hydrochlorothiazide polymorph (I) (systematic name: 6-chloro-1,1-dioxo-3,4-dihydro-2H-1,2,4-benzothiadiazine-7-sulfonamide, C7H8ClN3O4S2) and, recently designed by us, the polar 2-aminopyridine hydrochlorothiazide water <1/1/1> (C7H8ClN3O4S2·C5H6N2·H2O), (II), have been investigated. The crystal structures of both materials were determined using the single-crystal X-ray diffraction technique. The intermolecular interactions in (I) and (II) were studied in detail via topological electron-density analysis. The obtained results showed hydrogen bonds with a character intermediate between closed-shell and shared-shell in both crystal structures. The most important hydrogen bonds in (I) are formed between sulfonamide groups, whereas in (II), water molecules play a crucial role as they interconnect 2-aminopyridine and hydrochlorothiazide molecules. Calculations of the optical properties revealed that both materials exhibit large linear birefringence, twice that of calcite. The theoretically predicted second harmonic generation efficiency is four times and five times larger than that of KH2PO4 for (I) and (II), respectively. The information gathered on intermolecular interactions and structure–property correlations was used to identify the best strategies for the future design of new functional materials of this kind.","PeriodicalId":7080,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75556003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Satyasree Rajendrakumar, Anuja Surampudi Venkata Sai Durga, S. Balasubramanian
{"title":"Strategic synthon approach in obtaining cocrystals and cocrystal polymorphs of a high-Z′ system deferiprone – an anti-thalassemia drug","authors":"Satyasree Rajendrakumar, Anuja Surampudi Venkata Sai Durga, S. Balasubramanian","doi":"10.1107/s205252062100980x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s205252062100980x","url":null,"abstract":"Compounds with more than one molecule in the crystallographic asymmetric unit (Z′ > 1) display a noticeably stronger propensity to form cocrystals. Deferiprone is an anti-thalassemia drug known to exhibit polymorphic behaviour. Previously, three polymorphs were reported out of which one of them exhibited Z′ > 1. In the present manuscript, a fourth polymorph of deferiprone was identified and it also possessed Z′ > 1. All the four polymorphs showed similar hydrogen bonding features and differed in crystal packing. The ability of deferiprone to crystallize as Z′ > 1 prompted us to investigate the hydrogen bonding and synthon variation upon cocrystallization of deferiprone with hydroxyl-group-containing coformers such as catechol, hydroquinone, phloroglucinol, resorcinol and pyrogallol. Crystallization attempts along with PXRD analysis aided in obtaining 11 new cocrystal structures which involve different stoichiometric cocrystals and some polymorphs. Synthon analysis, crystal packing as well as thermal behaviour were assessed and compared. The presence of multiple phases in each cocrystal system in its respective bulk powders was identified and quantified using PXRD and Rietveld analysis. Homosynthons were observed in three co-crystal systems, while a heterosynthon was observed in five systems. The combination of both homo- and heterosynthon was observed in three cocrystal systems. The phase transformation events were observed in most of the systems. In nine co-crystal systems, the melting points were observed intermediate between those of the API and the coformers.","PeriodicalId":7080,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials","volume":"177 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85037180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. A. Shteingolts, J. Voronina, L. Saifina, M. Shulaeva, V. Semenov, R. Fayzullin
{"title":"On the transfer of theoretical multipole parameters for restoring static electron density and revealing and treating atomic anharmonic motion. Features of chemical bonding in crystals of an isocyanuric acid derivative","authors":"S. A. Shteingolts, J. Voronina, L. Saifina, M. Shulaeva, V. Semenov, R. Fayzullin","doi":"10.1107/s2052520621009690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s2052520621009690","url":null,"abstract":"The crystal and electronic structure of an isocyanuric acid derivative was studied by high-resolution single-crystal X-ray diffraction within the Hansen–Coppens multipole formalism. The observed deformation electron density shows signs of thermal smearing. The experimental picture meaningfully assigned to the consequences of unmodelled anharmonic atomic motion. Straightforward simultaneous refinement of all parameters, including Gram–Charlier coefficients, resulted in more significant distortion of apparent static electron density, even though the residual density became significantly flatter and more featureless. Further, the method of transferring multipole parameters from the model refined against theoretical structure factors as an initial guess was employed, followed by the subsequent block refinement of Gram–Charlier coefficients and the other parameters. This procedure allowed us to appropriately distinguish static electron density from the contaminant smearing effects of insufficiently accounted atomic motion. In particular, some covalent bonds and the weak π...π interaction between isocyanurate moieties were studied via the mutual penetration of atomic-like kinetic and electrostatic potential φ-basins with complementary atomic ρ-basins. Further, local electronic temperature was applied as an advanced descriptor for both covalent bonds and noncovalent interactions. Total probability density function (PDF) of nuclear displacement showed virtually no negative regions close to and around the atomic nuclei. The distribution of anharmonic PDF to a certain extent matched the residual electron density from the multipole model before anharmonic refinement. No signs of disordering of the sulfonyl group hidden in the modelled anharmonic motion were found in the PDF.","PeriodicalId":7080,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials","volume":"338 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82900398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Forni, E. Cariati, L. Carlucci, E. Lucenti, D. Marinotto, S. Pieraccini, M. Sironi
{"title":"Interpreting the different emissive properties of cyclic triimidazole-based CuI and AgI coordination polymers: a QTAIM and IQA study","authors":"A. Forni, E. Cariati, L. Carlucci, E. Lucenti, D. Marinotto, S. Pieraccini, M. Sironi","doi":"10.1107/S2052520621009707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520621009707","url":null,"abstract":"The different nature of the emissive states of AgI and CuI one- and three-dimensional coordination polymers is here explained by a higher covalent character of the Cu—N bond with respect to the Ag—N one.","PeriodicalId":7080,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials","volume":"44 1","pages":"865 - 870"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73052042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Comboni, T. Porȩba, F. Pagliaro, Tommaso Battiston, P. Lotti, G. Gatta, G. Garbarino, M. Hanfland
{"title":"Crystal structure of the high-P polymorph of Ca2B6O6(OH)10·2(H2O) (meyerhofferite)","authors":"D. Comboni, T. Porȩba, F. Pagliaro, Tommaso Battiston, P. Lotti, G. Gatta, G. Garbarino, M. Hanfland","doi":"10.1107/s2052520621009768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s2052520621009768","url":null,"abstract":"The crystal structure of the high-pressure polymorph of meyerhofferite, ideally Ca2B6O6(OH)10·2(H2O), has been determined by means of single-crystal synchrotron X-ray diffraction data. Meyerhofferite undergoes a first-order isosymmetric phase transition to meyerhofferite-II, bracketed between 3.15 and 3.75 GPa, with a large volume discontinuity. The phase transition is marked by an increase in the coordination number of the boron B1 site, from III to IV, leading to a more interconnected and less compressible structure. The main structural differences between the two polymorphs and the P-induced deformation mechanisms at the atomic scale are discussed.","PeriodicalId":7080,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76463755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}