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Atomic-level structure determination of amorphous molecular solids by NMR

Cordova, Manuel  
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Moutzouri, Pinelopi  
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Nilsson Lill, Sten O.
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August 23, 2023
Nature Communications

Structure determination of amorphous materials remains challenging, owing to the disorder inherent to these materials. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) powder crystallography is a powerful method to determine the structure of molecular solids, but disorder leads to a high degree of overlap between measured signals, and prevents the unambiguous identification of a single modeled periodic structure as representative of the whole material. Here, we determine the atomic-level ensemble structure of the amorphous form of the drug AZD4625 by combining solid-state NMR experiments with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and machine-learned chemical shifts. By considering the combined shifts of all 1H and 13C atomic sites in the molecule, we determine the structure of the amorphous form by identifying an ensemble of local molecular environments that are in agreement with experiment. We then extract and analyze preferred conformations and intermolecular interactions in the amorphous sample in terms of the stabilization of the amorphous form of the drug.

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DOI
10.1038/s41467-023-40853-2
Web of Science ID

WOS:001087324800009

Author(s)
Cordova, Manuel  
Moutzouri, Pinelopi  
Nilsson Lill, Sten O.
Cousen, Alexander
Kearns, Martin
Norberg, Stefan T.
Svensk Ankarberg, Anna
Mccabe, James
Pinon, Arthur C.
Schantz, Staffan
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Date Issued

2023-08-23

Publisher

Nature Portfolio

Published in
Nature Communications
Volume

14

Issue

1

Article Number

5138

Subjects

Dynamic Nuclear-Polarization

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Crystal-Structure Prediction

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Chemical-Shift Prediction

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Tight-Binding Method

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X-Ray-Diffraction

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State Nmr

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Powder Crystallography

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Electron-Diffraction

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Drug Design

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Spectroscopy

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This work was supported by AstraZeneca, Swiss National Science Foundation Grant No. 200020_212046, and by the NCCR MARVEL.

AstraZeneca

200020_212046

Swiss National Science Foundation

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February 20, 2024
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