Polymorphism co-crystal screening

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In their HOT article, Jones and co-workers at the University of Cambridge present a comprehensive crystal form screen for the phenazine:mesaconic acid system, employing a variety of different co-crystallisation methods.
 
Phenazine:mesaconic acid system
Phenazine:mesaconic acid system

The researchers identified and characterised three anhydrous co-crystal polymorphs, one co-crystal hydrate and one DMSO co-crystal solvate, and also highlighted a novel co-crystallisation technique at the interface between two immiscible solutions, yielding a pure phenazine:mesaconic acid co-crystal form.   Traditional solvent-based methods usually used for polymorphism screening were inappropriate for this system due to the large differences in solubility of phenazine and mesaconic acid.

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Screening for polymorphs of cocrystals: a case study
Mark D. Eddleston, Saranja Sivachelvam and William Jones
CrystEngComm, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2CE26496J

You may also be interested in other recent work on co-crystals by the Jones group:

Cocrystal dissociation and molecular demixing in the solid state
Mark D. Eddleston, Gareth O. Lloyd and William Jones
Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 8075-8077
DOI: 10.1039/C2CC33412G, Communication

A hydrogen bonded cocrystal with an unusual interweaving between the adjacent triple-helices
Amit Delori and William Jones
CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 6315-6318
DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05534H, Communication

Observation of a two-dimensional halogen-bonded cocrystal at sub-monolayer coverage using synchrotron X-ray diffraction
Stuart M. Clarke, Tomislav Frišcic, William Jones, Anasuya Mandal, Chenguang Sun and Julia E. Parker
Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 2526-2528
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC04400H, Communication

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