Computational and Experimental Approaches in Pharmaceutical Crystals

Dear Colleagues,

It’s a real pleasure for me to invite you to contribute to the Crystals Special Issue entitled: Computational and Experimental Approach in Pharmaceutical Crystals.

It is well known as solid-state analysis plays a key role in the study of compounds of pharmaceutical interest. In fact, it helps to understand a multiplicity of phenomena like polymorphism and pseudo-polymorphism, intermolecular interactions, solvation and desolvation just to name a few. On the other hand, an experimental approach alone may sometimes not be sufficient to deeply rationalize particular behavior of a pharmaceutical compound; in this case, the possibility to perform theoretical calculations is of great importance. 

In addition to this, a computational approach may help in in the design of compounds having desired properties, in other words this kind of analysis is of fundamental importance for the crystal engineering of well performing APIs (Active pharmaceutical ingredients). 

The special issue on ‘‘Computational and Experimental Approach in Pharmaceutical Crystals’’ is intended to cover both the fields of design and solid-state analysis, by an experimental and computational point of view, of compounds of pharmaceutical interest.

Prof. Dr. Patrizia Rossi
Dr. Martina Lippi
Guest Editors

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