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Combinatorial Crystal Synthesis: Structural Landscape of Phloroglucinol:1,2‐bis(4‐pyridyl)ethylene and Phloroglucinol:Phenazine
Author(s) -
Dubey Ritesh,
Desiraju Gautam R.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
angewandte chemie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1521-3757
pISSN - 0044-8249
DOI - 10.1002/ange.201402668
Subject(s) - phloroglucinol , synthon , phenazine , crystallization , chemistry , crystal engineering , crystallography , ternary operation , crystal structure , crystal (programming language) , polymorphism (computer science) , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , supramolecular chemistry , biochemistry , computer science , genotype , programming language , gene
A large number of crystal forms, polymorphs and pseudopolymorphs, have been isolated in the phloroglucinol‐dipyridylethylene (PGL:DPE) and phloroglucinol‐phenazine (PGL:PHE) systems. An understanding of the intermolecular interactions and synthon preferences in these binary systems enables one to design a ternary molecular solid that consists of PGL, PHE, and DPE, and also others where DPE is replaced by other heterocycles. Clean isolation of these ternary cocrystals demonstrates synthon amplification during crystallization. These results point to the lesser likelihood of polymorphism in multicomponent crystals compared to single‐component crystals. The appearance of several crystal forms during crystallization of a multicomponent system can be viewed as combinatorial crystal synthesis with synthon selection from a solution library. The resulting polymorphs and pseudopolymorphs that are obtained constitute a crystal structure landscape.