Lattice-switch Monte Carlo and the related diabat methods have emerged as efficient and accurate ways to compute free energy differences between polymorphs. In this work, we introduce a one-to-one mapping from the reference positions and displacements in one molecular crystal to the positions and displacements in another. Two features of the mapping facilitate lattice-switch Monte Carlo and related diabat methods for computing polymorph free energy differences. First, the mapping is unitary so that its Jacobian does not complicate the free energy calculations. Second, the mapping is easily implemented for molecular crystals of arbitrary complexity. We demonstrate the mapping by computing free energy differences between polymorphs of benzene and carbamazepine. Free energy calculations for thermodynamic cycles, each involving three independently computed polymorph free energy differences, all return to the starting free energy with a high degree of precision. The calculations thus provide a force field independent validation of the method and allow us to estimate the precision of the individual free energy differences.
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28 December 2020
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December 23 2020
Diabat method for polymorph free energies: Extension to molecular crystals
Kartik Kamat
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Kartik Kamat
1
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California–Santa Barbara
, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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Rui Guo
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Rui Guo
2
Department of Chemistry, University College London
, London WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
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Susan M. Reutzel-Edens
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Susan M. Reutzel-Edens
3
Small Molecule Design and Development, Eli Lilly and Company
, Indianapolis, Indiana 46285, USA
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Sarah L. Price
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Sarah L. Price
2
Department of Chemistry, University College London
, London WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
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Baron Peters
Baron Peters
a)
4
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
5
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: baronp@illinois.edu
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J. Chem. Phys. 153, 244105 (2020)
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Received:
August 10 2020
Accepted:
December 02 2020
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Kartik Kamat, Rui Guo, Susan M. Reutzel-Edens, Sarah L. Price, Baron Peters; Diabat method for polymorph free energies: Extension to molecular crystals. J. Chem. Phys. 28 December 2020; 153 (24): 244105. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0024727
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