Nicholas Francia

ORCID: 0000-0003-0936-2342
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Research Areas
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
  • Nuclear Materials and Properties
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
  • Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis
  • Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics
  • Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels
  • High Temperature Alloys and Creep
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
2023-2024

University College London
2020-2024

Thomas Young Centre
2020-2022

Eli Lilly (United States)
2020

Lily M. Hunnisett Jonas Nyman Nicholas Francia Nathan S. Abraham Claire S. Adjiman and 95 more Srinivasulu Aitipamula Tamador Alkhidir Mubarak Almehairbi Andrea Anelli Dylan M. Anstine John E. Anthony Joseph E. Arnold Faezeh Bahrami Michael A. Bellucci Rajni M. Bhardwaj Imanuel Bier J.A. Bis A. Daniel Boese David Bowskill James Bramley Jan Gerit Brandenburg Doris E. Braun Patrick W. V. Butler Joseph Cadden Stephen A. R. Carino Eric J. Chan Chao Chang Bingqing Cheng S. Clarke Simon J. Coles Richard I. Cooper Ricky Wayne Couch Raúl Cuadrado‐Matías Tom Darden Graeme M. Day H. Dietrich Yiming Ding Antonio G. DiPasquale Bhausaheb Dhokale Bouke P. van Eijck M.R.J. Elsegood Dzmitry S. Firaha Wenbo Fu Kaori Fukuzawa Joseph Glover Midori Goto Chandler Greenwell Guo Rui J. A. Harter Julian Helfferich Detlef W. M. Hofmann Johannes Hoja John Hone Richard S. Hong Geoffrey Hutchison Yasuhiro Ikabata Olexandr Isayev Ommair Ishaque Varsha Jain Yingdi Jin Aling Jing Erin R. Johnson Ian M. Jones K. V. Jovan Jose Elena A. Kabova Adam C. Keates Paul F. Kelly Dmitry V. Khakimov Stefanos Konstantinopoulos L. N. Kuleshova He Li Xiaolu Lin Alexander List Congcong Liu Yifei Michelle Liu Zenghui Liu Zhi‐Pan Liu Joseph W. Lubach Noa Marom Alexander A. Maryewski Hiroyuki Matsui Alessandra Mattei R. Alex Mayo John W. Melkumov Sharmarke Mohamed Zahrasadat Momenzadeh Abardeh Hari S. Muddana Naofumi Nakayama Kamal Singh Nayal Marcus A. Neumann Rahul Nikhar Shigeaki Obata Dana O’Connor Artem R. Oganov Koji Okuwaki Alberto Otero‐de‐la‐Roza Constantinos C. Pantelides S. Parkin Chris J. Pickard Luca Pilia

A seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction was organized by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre featuring seven target systems varying complexity: a silicon and iodine-containing molecule, copper coordination complex, near-rigid cocrystal, polymorphic small agrochemical, highly flexible drug candidate, morpholine salt. In this first two parts focusing on generation methods, many (CSP) methods performed well for but agrochemical compound, successfully reproducing...

10.1107/s2052520624007492 article EN cc-by Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials 2024-09-13
Lily M. Hunnisett Nicholas Francia Jonas Nyman Nathan S. Abraham Srinivasulu Aitipamula and 95 more Tamador Alkhidir Mubarak Almehairbi Andrea Anelli Dylan M. Anstine John E. Anthony Joseph E. Arnold Faezeh Bahrami Michael A. Bellucci Gregory J. O. Beran Rajni M. Bhardwaj Raffaello Bianco J.A. Bis A. Daniel Boese James Bramley Doris E. Braun Patrick W. V. Butler Joseph Cadden Stephen A. R. Carino Ctirad Červinka Eric J. Chan Chao Chang S. Clarke Simon J. Coles Cameron Cook Richard I. Cooper Tom Darden Graeme M. Day Deng Wen-da H. Dietrich Antonio G. DiPasquale Bhausaheb Dhokale Bouke P. van Eijck M.R.J. Elsegood Dzmitry S. Firaha Wenbo Fu Kaori Fukuzawa Nikolaos Galanakis Midori Goto Chandler Greenwell Rui Guo J. A. Harter Julian Helfferich Johannes Hoja John Hone Richard S. Hong Michal Hušák Yasuhiro Ikabata Olexandr Isayev Ommair Ishaque Varsha Jain Yingdi Jin Aling Jing Erin R. Johnson Ian M. Jones K. V. Jovan Jose Elena A. Kabova Adam C. Keates Paul F. Kelly Jiří Klimeš Veronika Kostková He Li Xiaolu Lin Alexander List Congcong Liu Yifei Michelle Liu Zenghui Liu Ivor Lončarić Joseph W. Lubach Jan Ludík Noa Marom Hiroyuki Matsui Alessandra Mattei R. Alex Mayo John W. Melkumov Bruno Mladineo Sharmarke Mohamed Zahrasadat Momenzadeh Abardeh Hari S. Muddana Naofumi Nakayama Kamal Singh Nayal Marcus A. Neumann Rahul Nikhar Shigeaki Obata Dana O’Connor Artem R. Oganov Koji Okuwaki Alberto Otero‐de‐la‐Roza Sean Parkin Antonio Parunov Rafał Podeszwa Alastair J. A. Price Louise S. Price Sarah L. Price Michael R. Probert Angeles Pulido

A seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction has been organized by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. The results are presented in two parts, with this second part focusing on methods for ranking structures order stability. exercise involved standardized sets seeded from a range generation methods. Participants 22 groups applied several periodic DFT-D methods, machine learned potentials, force fields derived empirical data or quantum chemical calculations, and various...

10.1107/s2052520624008679 article EN cc-by Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials 2024-10-17

A workflow for the digital design of crystallization processes starting from chemical structure active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) is a multistep, multidisciplinary process. simple version would be to first predict API crystal and, it, corresponding properties solubility, morphology, and growth rates, assuming that nucleation controlled by seeding, then use these parameters This usually an oversimplification as most APIs are polymorphic, stable alone may not have required development...

10.1021/acs.cgd.3c01390 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Crystal Growth & Design 2024-06-24

Crystal structure prediction methods are prone to overestimate the number of potential polymorphs organic molecules. In this work, we aim reduce overprediction by systematically applying molecular dynamics simulations and biased sampling cluster subsets structures that can easily interconvert at finite temperature pressure. Following approach, rationally predicted putative in crystal (CSP)-generated energy landscapes. This uses an unsupervised clustering approach analyze independent...

10.1021/acs.cgd.0c00918 article EN cc-by Crystal Growth & Design 2020-09-09

A workflow for the digital design of crystallization processes starting from chemical structure active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) is a multi-step, multi-disciplinary process. simple version would be to first predict API crystal and it corresponding properties solubility, morphology, growth rates, assume that nucleation controlled by seeding, then use these parameters This usually an over-simplification as most APIs are polymorphic, stable alone may not have required development into...

10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-lctpz preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd 2024-01-23

Reduction of a large dataset computationally predicted structures ibuprofen by employing molecular dynamics and biased simulations at finite temperature pressure.

10.1039/d1ce00616a article EN cc-by CrystEngComm 2021-01-01

<p>Crystal structure prediction methods are prone to overestimate the number of potential polymorphs organic molecules. In this work, we aim reduce overprediction by systematically applying molecular dynamics simulations and biased sampling cluster subsets structures that can easily interconvert at finite temperature pressure. Following approach, rationally predicted putative in CSP-generated crystal energy landscapes. This uses an unsupervised clustering approach analyze independent...

10.26434/chemrxiv.12609833 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd 2020-07-06

The control of the crystal form is a central issue in pharmaceutical industry. identification putative polymorphs through Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) methods based on lattice energy calculations, which are known to significantly over-predict number plausible structures. A valuable tool reduce overprediction employ physics-based, dynamic simulations coalesce minima separated by small barriers into smaller more stable geometries once thermal effects introduced. Molecular dynamics and...

10.26434/chemrxiv.14556072.v1 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd 2021-05-10

The molecular structures of the first and second generation sulflowers, sulflower persulfurated coronene (PSC), are remarkably similar: carbon ring decorated with sulfur atoms, without any additional moiety.

10.1039/d2ce00942k article EN cc-by-nc CrystEngComm 2022-01-01

Crystal structure prediction methods are prone to overestimate the number of potential polymorphs organic molecules. In this work, we aim reduce overprediction by systematically applying molecular dynamics simulations and biased sampling cluster subsets structures that can easily interconvert at finite temperature pressure. Following approach, rationally predicted putative in CSP-generated crystal energy landscapes. This uses an unsupervised clustering approach analyze independent...

10.26434/chemrxiv.12609833.v1 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd 2020-07-06

The molecular structures of the first and second generation Sulflowers, Sulflower Persulfurated Coronene (PSC), are remarkably similar: carbon ring decorated with sulfur atoms, without any additional moiety. However, their crystallisability is starkly different, Sulfower easily forming well-characterised crystals, but PSC only resulting in amorphous forms, despite extensive experimental efforts. Here this phenomenon investigated using Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) methods to generate...

10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-ht3v5 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd 2022-07-08

Since 1999 the Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) blind tests, a community initiative currently coordinated by Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), have provided state-of-the-art CSP methods with an opportunity to validate and benchmark methodologies against unpublished data, subsequent publications capturing developments made over years providing readers overview of available indevelopment [1][2][3][4][5][6].The 7 th test saw participation from 129 researchers belonging 28 groups...

10.1107/s2053273323094494 article EN Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances 2023-08-22

Crystal structure prediction methods are prone to overestimate the number of potential polymorphs organic molecules. In this work, we aim reduce overprediction by systematically applying molecular dynamics simulations and biased sampling cluster subsets structures that can easily interconvert at finite temperature pressure. Following approach, rationally predicted putative in CSP-generated crystal energy landscapes. This uses an unsupervised clustering approach analyze independent...

10.26434/chemrxiv.12609833.v2 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd 2020-08-11

<p>The control of the crystal form is a central issue in pharmaceutical industry. The identification putative polymorphs through Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) methods based on lattice energy calculations, which are known to significantly over-predict number plausible structures. A valuable tool reduce overprediction employ physics-based, dynamic simulations coalesce minima separated by small barriers into smaller more stable geometries once thermal effects introduced. Molecular...

10.26434/chemrxiv.14556072 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd 2021-05-10
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