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We present a crystallographic and computational study of three hydantoin-based active pharmaceutical ingredients nitrofurantoin, furazidin, and dantrolene aimed at identifying factors resulting in different propensities of these compounds to form polymorphs, hydrates, solvates, and solvate hydrates. This study is a continuation of our research towards understanding how small structural differences in closely related compounds affect their propensity to form different crystal phases, as all three compounds contain an imidazolidine-2,4-dione scaffold and a N-acyl hydrazone moiety and all form multiple crystalline phases. Crystallographic and computational analysis of the already known and newly obtained nitrofurantoin, furazidin and dantrolene crystal structures was performed by dissecting the properties of individual molecules and searching for the differences in tendency to form hydrogen bonding patterns and characteristic packing features. The propensity to form solvates was found to correlate with the relative packing efficiency of neat polymorphs and solvates and the ability of molecules to pack efficiently in several different ways. Additionally, the differences in propensity to form solvate-hydrates were attributed to the different stability of the hydrate phases.

A multifunctional, biologically active hydrazone compound (BZH) has been cocrystallized with four aliphatic dicarboxylic acids of different carbon linkage. Multiple hydrogen-bond donor and acceptor...

Polymorphism of four biologically active 3-(4,5-diaryl-4H-1,2,4-triazole-3-yl)propenoic acid derivatives has been investigated. Traditional solution-based solid-state forms screening revealed three anhydrous forms of 3-[4-phenyl-5-(2-pyridyl)-4H-1,2,4-triazole-3-yl]propenoic acid. Noteworthy, two pairs of concomitant polymorphs were detected for this system. Two other compounds were found to be dimorphic. The molecular and crystal structures of all obtained crystal forms were established by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The resulting crystal structures were analyzed in terms of molecular conformation, intermolecular interaction patterns, and crystal packing motifs. The experimental studies were supported by extended lattice and interaction energy calculations. It was found that the carboxylic group adopts the anti conformation in all studied forms and is involved in the intramolecular O–H···Ntriazole hydrogen bonding. In consequence, the association modes are dominated by the weak C–H···O, C–H···N hyd...

Synthesis, crystal structure, and thermal behavior studies of different solid-state forms of two new 2-pyridinecarboxaldehyde N-acylhydrazones are reported together with the corresponding computational analyses. Both compounds exist in two anhydrous polymorphic forms and crystallize also as hydrates. All of the studied crystals were obtained via solvent evaporation from solutions. Structural features were determined using single-crystal XRD (employing the transferred aspherical atom model, TAAM) supported by solid-state NMR. The relative stability of different crystal forms was examined experimentally using the TGA-DSC methods and supplemented with extended lattice and interaction energy calculations and crystal entropy estimation. The results confirmed the prevalent role of strong hydrogen bonds of N–H···O and N–H···N type in stabilization of anhydrous crystals. In the case of hydrates, water molecules incorporated into the crystal network are involved in the most efficient hydrogen bonds contributing si...