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Jiang C, Ma CY, Hazlehurst TA, Ilett TP, Jackson ASM, Hogg DC, Roberts KJ. Automated Growth Rate Measurement of the Facet Surfaces of Single Crystals of the β-Form of l-Glutamic Acid Using Machine Learning Image Processing. CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN 2024; 24:3277-3288. [PMID: 38659658 PMCID: PMC11036364 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.3c01548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2023] [Revised: 03/06/2024] [Accepted: 03/06/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
Abstract
Precision measurement of the growth rate of individual single crystal facets (hkl) represents an important component in the design of industrial crystallization processes. Current approaches for crystal growth measurement using optical microscopy are labor intensive and prone to error. An automated process using state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning to segment and measure the crystal images is presented. The accuracies and efficiencies of the new crystal sizing approach are evaluated against existing manual and semi-automatic methods, demonstrating equivalent accuracy but over a much shorter time, thereby enabling a more complete kinematic analysis of the overall crystallization process. This is applied to measure in situ the crystal growth rates and through this determining the associated kinetic mechanisms for the crystallization of β-form l-glutamic acid from the solution phase. Growth on the {101} capping faces is consistent with a Birth and Spread mechanism, in agreement with the literature, while the growth rate of the {021} prismatic faces, previously not available in the literature, is consistent with a Burton-Cabrera-Frank screw dislocation mechanism. At a typical supersaturation of σ = 0.78, the growth rate of the {101} capping faces (3.2 × 10-8 m s-1) is found to be 17 times that of the {021} prismatic faces (1.9 × 10-9 m s-1). Both capping and prismatic faces are found to have dead zones in their growth kinetic profiles, with the capping faces (σc = 0.23) being about half that of the prismatic faces (σc = 0.46). The importance of this overall approach as an integral component of the digital design of industrial crystallization processes is highlighted.
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Affiliation(s)
- Chen Jiang
- Centre
for the Digital Design of Drug Products, School of Chemical and Process
Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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- Centre
for the Digital Design of Drug Products, School of Chemical and Process
Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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- Centre
for the Digital Design of Drug Products, School of Chemical and Process
Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
- School
of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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- Centre
for the Digital Design of Drug Products, School of Chemical and Process
Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
- School
of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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- Centre
for the Digital Design of Drug Products, School of Chemical and Process
Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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- Centre
for the Digital Design of Drug Products, School of Chemical and Process
Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
- School
of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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- Centre
for the Digital Design of Drug Products, School of Chemical and Process
Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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Ma CY, Geatches D, Hsiao YW, Kwokal A, Roberts KJ. Role of Molecular, Crystal, and Surface Chemistry in Directing the Crystallization of Entacapone Polymorphs on the Au(111) Template Surface. CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN 2023; 23:4522-4537. [PMID: 37304395 PMCID: PMC10251417 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.3c00294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Revised: 04/04/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
The pharmaceutical compound entacapone ((E)-2-cyano-3-(3,4-dihydroxy-5-nitrophenyl)-N,N-diethylprop-2-enamide) is important in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, exhibiting interesting polymorphic behavior upon crystallization from solution. It consistently produces its stable form A with a uniform crystal size distribution on the surface of an Au(111) template while concomitantly forming its metastable form D within the same bulk solution. Molecular modeling using empirical atomistic force-fields reveals more complex molecular and intermolecular structures for form D compared to form A, with the crystal chemistry of both polymorphs being dominated by van der Waals and π-π stacking interactions with lower contributions (ca. 20%) from hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactions. Comparative lattice energies and convergence for the polymorphs are consistent with the observed concomitant polymorphic behavior. Synthon characterization reveals an elongated needle-like morphology for form D crystals in contrast to the more equant form A crystals with the surface chemistry of the latter exposing the molecules' cyano groups on its {010} and {011} habit faces. Density functional theory modeling of surface adsorption reveals preferential interactions between Au and the synthon GA interactions of form A on the Au surface. Molecular dynamics modeling of the entacapone/gold interface reveals the entacapone molecular structure within the first adsorbed layer to show nearly identical interaction distances, for both the molecules within form A or D with respect to the Au surface, while in the second and third layers when entacapone molecule-molecule interactions overtake the interactions between those of molecule-Au, the intermolecular structures are found to be closer to the form A structure than form D. In these layers, synthon GA (form A) could be reproduced with just two small azimuthal rotations (5° and 15°) whereas the closest alignment to a form D synthon requires larger azimuthal rotations (15° and 40°). The cyano functional group interactions with the Au template dominate interfacial interactions with these groups being aligned parallel to the Au surface and with nearest neighbor distances to Au atoms more closely matching those in form A than form D. The overall polymorph direction pathway thus encompasses consideration of molecular, crystal, and surface chemistry factors.
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Affiliation(s)
- Cai Y. Ma
- Centre
for the Digital Design of Drug Products, School of Chemical and Process
Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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- Science
and Technology Facilities Council, Daresbury Laboratory, Sci-Tech Daresbury, Warrington WA4 4AD, U.K.
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- Science
and Technology Facilities Council, Daresbury Laboratory, Sci-Tech Daresbury, Warrington WA4 4AD, U.K.
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- PLIVA
Croatia Ltd., R&D, P. B. Filipovica
25, Zagreb 10000, Croatia
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- Centre
for the Digital Design of Drug Products, School of Chemical and Process
Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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Exploring the solvent effect on risperidone (form I) crystal morphology: a combination of molecular dynamics simulation and experimental study. J Mol Liq 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2023.121358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Ma CY, Moldovan AA, Maloney AGP, Roberts KJ. Exploring the CSD Drug Subset: An Analysis of Lattice Energies and Constituent Intermolecular Interactions for the Crystal Structures of Pharmaceuticals. J Pharm Sci 2023; 112:435-445. [PMID: 36462705 DOI: 10.1016/j.xphs.2022.11.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2022] [Revised: 11/25/2022] [Accepted: 11/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
Abstract
Intermolecular (synthonic) modelling is used for a statistical analysis of crystal lattice energies, together with their contributing intermolecular interactions for the crystallographic structures selected from the CCDC's Drug Subset (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xphs.2018.12.011). Analysis of this selected subset reveal similarities in packing compared to other organic crystals in the CSD with linear relationships between molecular weight and unit cell volume, void space, and packing coefficient. Crystal lattice energy calculations converge within a 30 Å intermolecular radius characterised by a mean lattice energy of ca. -36 kcal mol-1 with ca. 85% and 15% due to dispersive and electrostatic interactions, respectively. The distribution of the strongest synthons within the individual structures reveals an average strength of -5.79 kcal mol-1. The diversity of chemical space within the drug molecules is in agreement with the analysis of atom types across the selected subset with phenyl groups being found to contribute the highest mean energy of -11.28 kcal mol-1, highlighting the importance of aromatic interactions within pharmaceutical compounds. Despite an initial focus on Z' = 1 structures, this automated approach enables rapid and consistent quantitative analysis of lattice energy, synthon strength and functional group contributions, providing solid-form informatics for pharmaceutical R&D and a helpful basis for further investigations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Cai Y Ma
- Centre for the Digital Design of Drug Products, School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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- The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 12 Union Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EZ, UK
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- The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 12 Union Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EZ, UK
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- Centre for the Digital Design of Drug Products, School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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