CrystEngComm Blog

This CrystEngComm Hot article looks at the changes in the magnetic behaviour of Cu(II)-p-hydroquinoanate polymers that occur with structural modification and the loss of DMF ligands. These findings could lead to a new way of preparing novel spin lattices, adding a new tool to the crystal engineers toolbox.

Thermally induced crystal-to-crystal transformations accompanied by changes in the magnetic properties of a CuII-p-hydroquinonate polymer
Ngoc Hien Phan, Ivan Halasz, Ingo Opahle, Edith Alig, Lothar Fink, Jan W. Bats, Pham Thanh Cong, Hans-Wolfram Lerner, Biprajit Sarkar, Bernd Wolf, Harald O. Jeschke, Michael Lang, Roser Valentí, Robert Dinnebier and Matthias Wagner

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00367K, Communication

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The formation of a near achiral metal-organic framework from the self assembly of chiral building blocks is investigated in this CrystEngComm Hot article.

Near achiral metal–organic frameworks from conformationally flexible homochiral ligands resulted by the preferential formation of pseudo-inversion center in asymmetric unit
Kyung Seok Jeong, Bo Hyung Lee, Qiaowei Li, Sang Beom Choi, Jaheon Kim and Nakcheol Jeong

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00426J, Communication

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Ping Yang and co-workers from the University of Jinan, China have created SiO₂-coated CdTe nanocrystal using

a controlled sol–gel reaction. Look at more images of these beautiful nanocrystals which show how science can be art and find out more about the research in this CrystEngComm Hot Article.

Ping Yang, Zhimin Yuan, Jie Yang, Aiyu Zhang, Yongqiang Cao, Qinghui Jiang, Ruixia Shi, Futian Liu and Xin Cheng
CrystEngComm, 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00350F

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In this CrystEngComm Hot Article, Andrzej Katrusiak and colleagues discuss the isobaric freezing of 1,1,1-trichloroethane to yields crystals. These crystals could shed new light on the range of intermolecular interactions that are capable of controlling molecular re-orientation and arrangement.

Crystalline gas of 1,1,1-trichloroethane 
Maciej Bujak, Marcin Podsiadło and Andrzej Katrusiak

CrystEngComm, 2011,DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00493F

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The marketed crystalline form of the painkiller celecoxib (Cel-III), COX-2 selective anti-inflammatory drug, has poor solubility. Various strategies to improve this and increase its bioavailability have been published including the use of crystalline forms of the sodium salt. This study by Julius Remenar and colleagues in the USA describes the structural findings and insights that have resulted from their effort to harness and understand the sodium salts of Celecoxib. Find out more in this CrystEngComm ‘Hot Article’.

Celecoxib sodium salt: engineering crystal forms for performance
Julius F. Remenar, Mark D. Tawa, Matthew L. Peterson, Örn Almarsson, Magali B. Hickey and Bruce M. Foxman
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00475H, Paper

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Michael Zaworotko and colleagues from the University of South Florida demonstrate how a tetracarboxylic acid (BIPA-TC) is prepared using C³S³ and then used as a ligand to generate two isomeric nets that represent examples of “ligand-to-ligand” pillaring. To find out more about this ‘Hot Article’ read the full communication here.

Cocrystal controlled solid-state synthesis of a rigid tetracarboxylate ligand that pillars both square grid and Kagomé lattice layers 
Jason A. Perman, Amy J. Cairns, Łukasz Wojtas, Mohamed Eddaoudi and Michael J. Zaworotko
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00542H, Communication

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A team at New York University have revealed the importance of chemical interactions at the nucleation surface compared with the periodic surface potential associated with epitaxy in controlling polymorphism through epitaxial relationships with crystalline substrates.  In this communication, Brian Olmsted and Michael Ward test the effectiveness of GRACE (Geometric Real-space Analysis of Crystal Epitaxy) software in predicting cases of epitaxially directed nucleation by performing a combinatorial crystallization study involving crystalline substrates and polymorphic compounds.

The role of chemical interactions and epitaxy during nucleation of organic crystals on crystalline substrates
Brian K. Olmsted and Michael D. Ward
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00366B, Communication

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Aurora Cruz-Cabeza and Colin Groom, CCDC, UK, investigate the stability of families of tautomers using the extensive Cambridge Structural Database. In the future, this analysis will help with predication of  tautomerism and tautomeric polymorphism in the solid state.

Identification, classification and relative stability of tautomers in the cambridge structural database 
Aurora J. Cruz-Cabeza and Colin R. Groom
CrystEngComm, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00123F

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In their CrystEngComm Hot Article, O-Pil Kwon and colleagues have developed a new cation core structure, N-benzyl stilbazolium nonlinear optical chromophore with a non-polar benzyl group to achieve acentric molecular ordering in the crystalline state.

Acentric nonlinear optical N-benzyl stilbazolium crystals with high environmental stability and enhanced molecular nonlinearity in solid state 
Pil-Joo Kim, Jae-Hyeok Jeong, Mojca Jazbinsek, Seong-Ji Kwon, Hoseop Yun, Jong-Taek Kim, Yoon Sup Lee, In-Hyung Baek, Fabian Rotermund, Peter Günter and O-Pil Kwon
CrystEngComm, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00456A

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