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202 M.R. Caira<br />

successful <strong>de</strong>sign of auxiliaries <strong>de</strong>pends on a <strong>de</strong>tailed knowledge of the pack<strong>in</strong>g<br />

arrangements, as well as the relationship between pack<strong>in</strong>g arrangements and<br />

crystal morphology for all species that might appear <strong>in</strong> the system. An early<br />

<strong>de</strong>monstration of this approach (which was subsequently successfully applied to<br />

several other systems) <strong>in</strong>volved resolution of racemic histid<strong>in</strong>e hydrochlori<strong>de</strong><br />

[165]. In the report of this resolution, it was mentioned that this approach was<br />

be<strong>in</strong>g tested for use <strong>in</strong> the precipitation of metastable polymorphic crystals by<br />

k<strong>in</strong>etic control.<br />

5 gossypol 6 <strong>in</strong>domethac<strong>in</strong><br />

7 cholic acid<br />

Recent application of these pr<strong>in</strong>ciples to polymorphic control is shown<br />

schematically <strong>in</strong> Fig. 15 for a hypothetical dimorphic system <strong>in</strong> which one polymorph<br />

is centrosymmetric and the other crystallizes <strong>in</strong> a polar space group [36].<br />

In the former crystal, the molecules are arranged <strong>in</strong> antiparallel orientation<br />

whereas <strong>in</strong> the latter they are aligned along a common direction. A tailor-ma<strong>de</strong><br />

auxiliary which b<strong>in</strong>ds to both crystals would do so at the two (<strong>in</strong>dist<strong>in</strong>guishable)<br />

ends of the centrosymmetric crystal but only at one end of the polar crystal. The<br />

latter would therefore grow at the expense of the former and polymorphic<br />

control will have been achieved.<br />

This concept was successfully applied to N-(2-acetamido-4-nitrophenyl)pyrroli<strong>de</strong>ne<br />

(PAN) where crystallization of the metastable polymorph of PAN could<br />

be <strong>in</strong>duced by addition of a remarkably small amount (0.03%) of the <strong>de</strong>signed<br />

<strong>in</strong>hibitor [36]. Generalisation of this strategy is not straightforward, however,<br />

s<strong>in</strong>ce polar crystals may belong to space groups of relatively high symmetry<br />

which require the constituent molecules to adopt a variety of orientations with<br />

respect to the polar axis [35]. Strategies which have been explored to eng<strong>in</strong>eer<br />

non-centrosymmetry <strong>in</strong>to crystals for NLO properties have been listed <strong>in</strong> a<br />

recent paper <strong>de</strong>scrib<strong>in</strong>g the polymorphism of 1,3-bis(m-nitrophenyl)urea [166].<br />

Research on the use of tailor-ma<strong>de</strong> surfaces for promotion of nucleation has<br />

been pursued <strong>in</strong> parallel with studies of crystal growth <strong>in</strong>hibition [35, 36]. The<br />

objective here is to ga<strong>in</strong> a <strong>de</strong>eper un<strong>de</strong>rstand<strong>in</strong>g of the mechanism of molecular

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