Crystallography Notes and Manuals

Many of the ideas and descriptions on the following pages were taken from some of the crystallography texts listed on the Journal of Chemical Education Crystallography book shelf..

X-Ray Safety

Single Crystal Practice

• X-Ray Safety
• Crystal Growth, Selection and Mounting
• Submitting Samples
• Steps in Structure Determination
  • Crystallographic Data Collection
  • Structure Solution
  • Structure Refinement
  • Structure Reporting
• Evaluate a Crystal Structure
• CCD Data Collection Instructions
• CCD Instrument Instructions
• CCD Instrument Alignment Procedures

Crystallographic Theory

• X-ray Crystallography
• Symmetry in Crystallography
• Crystal Twinning
• X-Ray Generation

Software Manuals

• Mercury
• Sir97
• SHELX-97 Notes
• ORTEP3
• RASMOL

Local Frequently Asked Questions

• Retrieving data files
• Including Drawings in a MS Word Document
• Access the Cambridge Structural Database

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