The computational prediction of pharmaceutical crystal structures and polymorphism

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 301-319

  Price, Sarah L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational prediction; Crystal structure prediction; Force fields; Lattice energy; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

LATTICE STRUCTURES; POLYMORPHISM;

DRUG PRODUCTS;

2 AMINO 5 NITROPYRIMIDINE; ALLOPURINOL; CHLOROTHALONIL; DIFLUNISAL; ESTRONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISOLONE DERIVATIVE; PREDNISOLONE TEBUTATE; PRIMIDONE; PROGESTERONE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DRUG STRUCTURE; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; KINETICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULE; PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLID STATE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

EID: 1042287179     PISSN: 0169409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2003.10.006     Document Type: Article

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