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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages 1675-1692Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0sc05526c
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- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
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The relationship between structure and properties is crucial in chemistry. Understanding the three-dimensional structure is essential, and in the past, limitations in crystallographic software made accurate determination of structures, particularly involving hydrogen atoms, nearly impossible.
The relationship between the structure and the properties of a drug or material is a key concept of chemistry. Knowledge of the three-dimensional structure is considered to be of such importance that almost every report of a new chemical compound is accompanied by an X-ray crystal structure - at least since the 1970s when diffraction equipment became widely available. Crystallographic software of that time was restricted to very limited computing power, and therefore drastic simplifications had to be made. It is these simplifications that make the determination of the correct structure, especially when it comes to hydrogen atoms, virtually impossible. We have devised a robust and fast system where modern chemical structure models replace the old assumptions, leading to correct structures from the model refinement against standard in-house diffraction data using no more than widely available software and desktop computing power. We call this system NoSpherA2 (Non-Spherical Atoms in Olex2). We explain the theoretical background of this technique and demonstrate the far-reaching effects that the improved structure quality that is now routinely available can have on the interpretation of chemical problems exemplified by five selected examples.
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