scholarly journals IsoStar Program Suite for Studies of Noncovalent Interactions in Crystals of Chemical Compounds

Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Novikov

Both Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) and Protein Data Bank (PDB) provide unique opportunities for finding information about the structures of chemical and biochemical compounds in the solid state. The IsoStar—a knowledge-based library of intermolecular interactions—is a very powerful tool for automatic analysis of a large amount of data from these databases. The IsoStar program suite could help chemists in understanding of probability of occurrence (frequencies) and spatial characteristics (directionalities) of noncovalent contacts (including hydrogen, halogen, and chalcogen bonds, as well as interactions involving π-systems) between pairs of chemical functional groups; this web application may also be useful for crystal engineers, crystallographers, medicinal chemists, and researchers in fields of computational chemistry and molecular modeling.

CrystEngComm ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shouvik Chattopadhyay ◽  
Tanmoy Basak ◽  
Antonio Frontera

Two mononuclear iron(III) complexes, [FeL1Cl]∙CH3CN (1) and [FeL2(N3)] (2) {H2L1= N,N′-bis(5-chlorosalicylidene)diethylenetriamine and H2L2= N,N′-bis(5-bromosalicylidene)diethylenetriamine}, have been synthesized and characterized by X-ray crystallographic studies. In the solid state, there are strong...


Author(s):  
Marcelle B.M. Spera ◽  
Frederico A. Quintão ◽  
Diego K.D. Ferraresi ◽  
Wilton R. Lustri ◽  
Alviclér Magalhães ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 226-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare F. Macrae ◽  
Ioana Sovago ◽  
Simon J. Cottrell ◽  
Peter T. A. Galek ◽  
Patrick McCabe ◽  
...  

The program Mercury, developed at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, was originally designed primarily as a crystal structure visualization tool. Over the years the fields and scientific communities of chemical crystallography and crystal engineering have developed to require more advanced structural analysis software. Mercury has evolved alongside these scientific communities and is now a powerful analysis, design and prediction platform which goes a lot further than simple structure visualization.


Crystals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saikat Seth

In this study, a new equimolar (1:1:1) mixed ligand Cu(II) polymer, [Cu(IDA)(ImP)]n (1) with iminodiacetato (IDA) and imidazo[1,2-a]-pyridine (ImP) was synthesized and characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. X-ray crystallography reveals that compound (1) consists of polymeric zigzag chain along [010] the carboxylate carbonyl oxygen atom by two-fold symmetry screw axis. The solid-state structure is stabilized through C–H···O hydrogen bonds and C–H···π interactions that lead the molecules to generate two-dimensional supramolecular assemblies. The intricate combinations of hydrogen bonds and C–H···π interactions are fully described along with computational studies. A thorough analysis of Hirshfeld surface and fingerprint plots elegantly quantify the interactions involved within the structure. The binding energies associated with the noncovalent interactions observed in the crystal structure and the interplay between them were calculated using theoretical DFT calculations. Weak noncovalent interactions were analyzed and characterized using Bader’s theory of ‘‘atoms-in-molecules’’ (AIM). Finally, the solid-state supramolecular assembly was characterized by the “Noncovalent Interaction” (NCI) plot index.


Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitrii S. Bolotin ◽  
Mikhail V. Il’in ◽  
Vitalii V. Suslonov ◽  
Alexander S. Novikov

4-Bromobenzamidrazone reacts with cyclopentanone giving 3-(4-bromophenyl)-5-(4-peroxobutyl)-1,2,4-triazole, which precipitated as pale-yellow crystals during the reaction. The intermolecular noncovalent interactions Br···Br in the single-crystal XRD structure of the peroxo compound were studied theoretically using quantum chemical calculations (ωB97XD/x2c-TZVPPall) and quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) analysis. These attractive intermolecular noncovalent interactions Br···Br is type I halogen···halogen contacts and their estimated energy is 2.2–2.5 kcal/mol. These weak interactions are suggested to be one of the driving forces (albeit surely not the main one) for crystallization of the peroxo compound during the reaction and thus its stabilization in the solid state.


2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (W1) ◽  
pp. W383-W388 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Sehnal ◽  
Lukáš Pravda ◽  
Radka Svobodová Vařeková ◽  
Crina-Maria Ionescu ◽  
Jaroslav Koča

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