Publications by Martins Balodis

Observation of Transient Prenucleation Species of Calcium Carbonate by DNP-Enhanced NMR

David Lyndon Emsley, Yu Rao, Gabriele Stevanato, Martins Balodis, Mattia Negroni

Knowledge of the mechanism by which polymorphic inorganic species, such as carbonates, are formed is crucial to understand and guide the selective crystallization of end products. Recently it has been shown that a key step in the crystallization of calcium ...

2024

Atomic-level structure of the amorphous drug atuliflapon via NMR crystallography

David Lyndon Emsley, Daria Torodii, Pierrick Berruyer, Albert Hofstetter, Manuel Cordova, Federico Maria Paruzzo, Bruno Simões de Almeida, Martins Balodis

We determine the complete atomic-level structure of the amorphous form of the drug atuliflapon, a 5-lipooxygenase activating protein (FLAP) inhibitor, via chemical-shift-driven NMR crystallography. The ensemble of preferred structures allows us to identify ...

2024

De Novo Crystal Structure Determination from Machine Learned Chemical Shifts

David Lyndon Emsley, Albert Hofstetter, Manuel Cordova, Martins Balodis

Determination of the three-dimensional atomic-level structure of powdered solids is one of the key goals in current chemistry. Solid-state NMR chemical shifts can be used to solve this problem, but they are limited by the high computational cost associated ...

2022

New methods for structure determination and speciation by NMR crystallography

Martins Balodis

NMR crystallography has been around for half a century, but with the advent of NMR crystal structure determination protocols in the last decade it has shown perspectives that were not seen before. Amalgamation of NMR and crystal structure determination has ...

EPFL2022

Structure determination of an amorphous drug through large-scale NMR predictions

David Lyndon Emsley, Pierrick Berruyer, Albert Hofstetter, Manuel Cordova, Federico Maria Paruzzo, Bruno Simões de Almeida, Martins Balodis

Knowledge of the structure of amorphous solids can direct, for example, the optimization of pharmaceutical formulations, but atomic-level structure determination in amorphous molecular solids has so far not been possible. Solid-state nuclear magnetic reson ...

Nature Research2021

Bayesian probabilistic assignment of chemical shifts in organic solids

David Lyndon Emsley, Michele Ceriotti, Manuel Cordova, Bruno Simões de Almeida, Martins Balodis

A prerequisite for NMR studies of organic materials is assigning each experimental chemical shift to a set of geometrically equivalent nuclei. Obtaining the assignment experimentally can be challenging and typically requires time-consuming multidimensional ...

2021

Rapid Structure Determination of Molecular Solids Using Chemical Shifts Directed by Unambiguous Prior Constraints

David Lyndon Emsley, Arthur César Pinon, Albert Hofstetter, Federico Maria Paruzzo, Martins Balodis

NMR-based crystallography approaches involving the combination of crystal structure prediction methods, ab initio calculated chemical shifts and solid-state NMR experiments are powerful methods for crystal structure determination of microcrystalline powder ...

2019

A Maze of Solid Solutions of Pimobendan Enantiomers: An Extraordinary Case of Polymorph and Solvate Diversity

Martins Balodis

2018