X-Ray Crystallography Laboratory

As of 17:00, 24 March 2020, the Chemistry Department is closed. I am working remotely and can be reached via email should you have any questions.

EXTERNAL CLIENTS - please DO NOT send any samples without prior approval from me. Thanks, Mike

	X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY LABORATORY · Department of Chemistry · University of Alberta

Last updated 9 December 2017

Established in 1981, the X-Ray Crystallography Laboratory provides single-crystal X-ray crystallographic services to the University of Alberta Chemistry Department. Instrumentation includes:

a Bruker D8 Duo diffractometer / SMART APEX II CCD area detector system equipped with two radiation sources (Cu microsource and and Mo sealed-tube) and featuring a liquid-nitrogen-based crystal cooling system capable of temperatures ranging from ambient to -170 °C;
a Bruker PLATFORM diffractometer / SMART APEX II CCD area detector system with a sealed-tube radiation source (Mo) and featuring a liquid-nitrogen-based crystal cooling system capable of temperatures ranging from ambient to -150 °C.

Structures may be fully solved and refined by the staff crystallographers, or may be processed (using data collected with the facility's instruments) by research groups possessing their own crystallographic computing resources.

The crystallographers may also be consulted by our departmental clients for searches of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) of over 800,000 organic and organometallic crystal structures, which has been installed on the facility's Linux workstation.

Current waiting list:
  3 samples
Status of Diffractometers:
   D8 Duo: OK
   PLATFORM: OK

More information...
(updated 13 Feb 2020)

Links
Items of crystallographic interest.

FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions (especially for local users).

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Who we are and where to find us.