DORI reveals the influence of non-covalent interactions on covalent bonding patterns in molecular crystals under pressure

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    "version": 1, 
    "title": "DORI reveals the influence of non-covalent interactions on covalent bonding patterns in molecular crystals under pressure", 
    "keywords": [
      "Molecular scalar fields", 
      "Organic crystals", 
      "Topology", 
      "High pressure"
    ], 
    "description": "The study of organic molecular crystals under high pressure provides fundamental insight into crystal packing distortions and reveals mechanisms of phase transitions and the crystallization of polymorphs. These solid state transformations can be monitored directly by analyzing electron charge densities that are experimentally obtained at high pressure. However, restricting the analysis to the featureless electron density does not reveal the chemical bonding nature and the existence of intermolecular interactions. This shortcoming can be resolved by the use of the DORI (Density Overlap Region Indicator) descriptor, which is capable of detecting simultaneously both covalent patterns and non-covalent interactions from electron density and its derivatives. Using the biscarbonyl[14]annulene crystal under pressure as an example, we demonstrate how DORI can be exploited on experimental electron densities to reveal and monitor changes in electronic structure patterns resulting from molecular compression. A novel approach based on a flood fill type algorithm is proposed for analyzing the topology of the DORI isosurface. This approach avoids the arbitrarily selection of DORI isovalues and provides an intuitive way to assess how compression packing affects covalent bonding in organic solids.", 
    "license": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International", 
    "references": [
      {
        "url": "", 
        "type": "Journal reference", 
        "citation": "Benjamin Meyer, Senja Barthel, Amber Mace,  Laurent Vannay, Benoit Guillot, Berend Smit and Cl\u00e9mence Corminboeuf. Submitted.", 
        "comment": "", 
        "doi": ""
      }
    ], 
    "doi": "10.24435/materialscloud:2019.0006/v1", 
    "conceptrecid": "95", 
    "publication_date": "Feb 06, 2019, 00:00:00", 
    "edited_by": 98, 
    "_oai": {
      "id": "oai:materialscloud.org:96"
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    "contributors": [
      {
        "affiliations": [
          "Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design (LCMD),  Institute  of  Chemical  Sciences  and  Engineering (ISIC), \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, (Switzerland) and National Center for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, (Switzerland)  "
        ], 
        "familyname": "Meyer", 
        "givennames": "Benjamin"
      }, 
      {
        "affiliations": [
          "Laboratory of Molecular Simulation (LSMO), Institute  of  Chemical  Sciences  and  Engineering  (ISIC), \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne  (EPFL Valais), CH-1951 Sion, (Switzerland) and National Center for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, (Switzerland)   "
        ], 
        "familyname": "Barthel", 
        "givennames": "Senja"
      }, 
      {
        "affiliations": [
          "Laboratory of Molecular Simulation (LSMO), Institute  of  Chemical  Sciences  and  Engineering  (ISIC), \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne  (EPFL Valais), CH-1951 Sion, (Switzerland) and National Center for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, (Switzerland)  and Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, (Sweden)"
        ], 
        "familyname": "Mace", 
        "givennames": "Amber"
      }, 
      {
        "affiliations": [
          "Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design (LCMD),  Institute  of  Chemical  Sciences  and  Engineering (ISIC), \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, (Switzerland)"
        ], 
        "familyname": "Vannay", 
        "givennames": "Laurent"
      }, 
      {
        "affiliations": [
          "Laboratoire CRM2, UMR 7036, Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine, F-54506 Vandoeuvre-l\u00e8s-Nancy, (France)"
        ], 
        "familyname": "Guillot", 
        "givennames": "Benoit"
      }, 
      {
        "affiliations": [
          "Laboratory of Molecular Simulation (LSMO), Institute  of  Chemical  Sciences  and  Engineering  (ISIC), \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne  (EPFL Valais), CH-1951 Sion, (Switzerland) and National Center for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, (Switzerland)   "
        ], 
        "familyname": "Smit", 
        "givennames": "Berend"
      }, 
      {
        "affiliations": [
          "Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design (LCMD),  Institute  of  Chemical  Sciences  and  Engineering (ISIC), \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, (Switzerland) and National Center for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, (Switzerland)  "
        ], 
        "email": "clemence.corminboeuf@epfl.ch", 
        "familyname": "Corminboeuf", 
        "givennames": "Cl\u00e9mence"
      }
    ], 
    "owner": 52, 
    "license_addendum": "", 
    "mcid": "2019.0006/v1", 
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        "description": "This file contains the crystal information files of the BCA unit cell at ambient pressure (AP) and at high pressure (HP), the refined experimental electron densities and the computed DORI molecular scalar fields.", 
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  "created": "2020-05-12T13:52:33.102251+00:00", 
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