Publications by Pinelopi Moutzouri

Three-Dimensional Atomic-Level Structure of an Amorphous Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist

David Lyndon Emsley, Daria Torodii, Pinelopi Moutzouri, Manuel Cordova

Amorphous formulations are increasingly used in the pharmaceutical industry due to their increased solubility, but their structural characterization at atomic-level resolution remains extremely challenging. Here, we characterize the complete atomic-level s ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Crystal structure validation of verinurad via proton-detected ultra-fast MAS NMR and machine learning

David Lyndon Emsley, Daria Torodii, Pinelopi Moutzouri, Manuel Cordova

The recent development of ultra-fast magic-angle spinning (MAS) (>100 kHz) provides new opportunities for structural characterization in solids. Here, we use NMR crystallography to validate the structure of verinurad, a microcrystalline active pharmaceutic ...

2024

Barriers to resolution in 1H NMR of rotating solids

David Lyndon Emsley, Daria Torodii, Pinelopi Moutzouri, Bruno Simões de Almeida

The role of 1H solid-state NMR in structure elucidation of solids is becoming more preponderant, particularly as faster magic-angle spinning rates (MAS) become available which improve 1H detected assignment strategies. However, current 1H spectral resoluti ...

Academic Press Inc - Elsevier Science2023

Atomic-level structure determination of amorphous molecular solids by NMR

David Lyndon Emsley, Arthur César Pinon, Pinelopi Moutzouri, Manuel Cordova

Structure determination of amorphous materials remains challenging, owing to the disorder inherent to these materials. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) powder crystallography is a powerful method to determine the structure of molecular solids, but disorder ...

Nature Portfolio2023

A General Method for The Structure Determination of Amorphous Drugs By NMR

David Lyndon Emsley, Pinelopi Moutzouri, Manuel Cordova

Int Union Crystallography2023

Two-dimensional Pure Isotropic Proton Solid State NMR

David Lyndon Emsley, Daria Torodii, Pinelopi Moutzouri, Manuel Cordova, Bruno Simões de Almeida

One key bottleneck of solid-state NMR spectroscopy is that H-1 NMR spectra of organic solids are often very broad due to the presence of a strong network of dipolar couplings. We have recently suggested a new approach to tackle this problem. More specifica ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

Pure Isotropic Proton NMR Spectra in Solids using Deep Learning

David Lyndon Emsley, Daria Torodii, Pinelopi Moutzouri, Manuel Cordova, Bruno Simões de Almeida

The resolution of proton solid-state NMR spectra is usually limited by broadening arising from dipolar interactions between spins. Magic-angle spinning alleviates this broadening by inducing coherent averaging. However, even the highest spinning rates expe ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

Spatial Distribution of Functional Groups in Cellulose Ethers by DNP-Enhanced Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

David Lyndon Emsley, Pierrick Berruyer, Pinelopi Moutzouri

Cellulose ethers are an important class of biosourced polymers. They are typically obtained from by chemical modification of natural cellulosefibers in aheterogeneous process, resulting in heterogeneous distributions of the functional groups in the materia ...

American Chemical Society2022

Atomic-Level Structure of Zinc-Modified Cementitious Calcium Silicate Hydrate

David Lyndon Emsley, Karen Scrivener, Paul Bowen, Pinelopi Moutzouri, Manuel Cordova, Anna Morales Melgares, Amrit Venkatesh, Ziga Casar

It has recently been demonstrated that the addition of zinc can enhance the mechanical strength of tricalcium silicates (C3S) upon hydration, but the structure of the main hydration product of cement, calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H), in zinc modified form ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

H-1 Hyperpolarization of Solutions by Overhauser Dynamic Nuclear Polarization with C-13-H-1 Polarization Transfer

David Lyndon Emsley, Yu Rao, Pinelopi Moutzouri, Amrit Venkatesh

Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is a method that can significantly increase the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance. The only effective DNP mechanism for in situ hyperpolarization in solution is Overhauser DNP, which is inefficient for H-1 at high ...

2022