Welcome to NCMN Crystallography Central Facility
Updated Jan-2-2008
Created Jul-2006
by Chunhua Hu
News and Announcements
Dec. 17, 2007 - The Request Form is updated with the proven facility rates.
Aug. 20, 2007 - Congratuations to Sangeeta Dey and David B. Berkowitz! Their work was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2007, 46(37), 7010-7014. (Angew. Chem. 2007, 119(37), 7140-7144.)
Jul. 25, 2007 - WinGX software package was installed in two Windows computers of the facility. Jul. 18, 2007 - Facility webpage was updated.
Jul. 11, 2007 - The facility equipments have to be re-arranged due to a lot of condensation water on the part of the floor on Jul. 9 and 10. See the picture for a new look.
May 4, 2007 - The Oxford 700 Cooler works again after upgrading its single-headed gas pump to double-headed.
Feb. 8, 2007 - Before sending your crystals to the facility, please read the facility policies and complete the Request Form. Please do not forget your advisor's signature.
Nov.16, 2006 - The Request Form is updated with the proven facility rates.
Oct. 30, 2006 - After changing a power board in the Apex CCD, the diffractometer is running again.
Sep. 14, 2006 - Diamond program (ver. 3.1d) may draw a nice MOF (Metal-Organic Framework) diagram with a ball representing the free space in the structure.
(MOF-5)
Aug. 4, 2006 - The facility bought a campus license of crystal structure visulization program, Diamond. If you need a copy, please email to Dr. Chunhua Hu.
Aug. 3, 2006 - Perfect results were obtained from a well-diffracting crystal of a Cs compound submitted by Dr. Jianjun Liu in Prof. Robert Smith's Group. (Space group P 2/n 21/n 2/a, Nr. 52, Rint = 0.0300 from 28176 reflections, R1 = 0.0172 from 2527 reflections with I > 2σ(I), wR2 = 0.0473 from 2728 unique reflections, Np = 156, S = 1.118, Δρmax = 0.941 e Å-3.)
A crystal with the size of 0.16x0.12x0.07 mm3
A diffraction spot (right down corner) is visible at the high 2θ=112.89° (Mo Kα).Jul. 7, 2006 - New facility homepage is on-line.
Contact Chunhua Hu with questions or comments.
Jun. 27, 2006 - Apex is again in an operational status.
You are welcome to bring your single-crystal samples for structure determination. Please first read the facility policies and fill the request form out.
May - Jun., 2006 - Facility maintainance: fixing problems, changing coolants, updating software, testing YLID crystal, calibrating machine etc.
Programs Version (year)
ASTRO
Cell_now
D8tools
Phoenix
RLATT
SADABS
SAINT+
SHELXTL
SMART
VIDEO5.007 (1997)
(2002)
3.05 (2006)
3.12 (2002)
3.0 (2000)
2.10 (2003), (2007)
6.45 (2003)
6.14 (2003)
6.532 (2005)
1.3.14 (2005)Apr. 24, 2006 Dr. Chunhua Hu joined NCMN as Facility Specialist.
