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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 28, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202103589
Keywords
crystal structure prediction; mebendazole; NMR crystallography; PXRD; tautomerism
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CSP-NMRX is a powerful method for crystal structure prediction that utilizes NMR information to reduce computational resources and improve efficiency. It was successfully applied to predict the crystal packing of three known phases of mebendazole, demonstrating its effectiveness in utilizing NMR data for structure determination.
Among all possible NMR crystallography approaches for crystal-structure determination, crystal structure prediction - NMR crystallography (CSP-NMRX) has recently turned out to be a powerful method. In the latter, the original procedure exploited solid-state NMR (SSNMR) information during the final steps of the prediction. In particular, it used the comparison of computed and experimental chemical shifts for the selection of the correct crystal packing. Still, the prediction procedure, generally carried out with DFT methods, may require important computational resources and be quite time-consuming, especially if there are no available constraints to use at the initial stage. Herein, the successful application of this combined prediction method, which exploits NMR information also in the input step to reduce the search space of the predictive algorithm, is presented. Herein, this method was applied on mebendazole, which is characterized by desmotropism. The use of SSNMR data as constraints for the selection of the right tautomer and the determination of the number of independent molecules in the unit cell led to a considerably faster process, reducing the number of calculations to be performed. In this way, the crystal packing was successfully predicted for the three known phases of mebendazole. To evaluate the quality of the predicted structures, these were compared to the experimental ones. The crystal structure of phase B of mebendazole, in particular, was determined de novo by powder diffraction and is presented for the first time in this paper.
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