Chemistry 4000 – Chemical Crystallography

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Final Exam is on Monday 17th December 9:00-12:00 am in Computer Lab E620

Course Outline


Carine Tutorial from Chem2810                Space Group Information (link to a separate page) 

Symmetry Tutorial in HyperChem            Crystallographic Computing (link to separate page)

  Useful Reference Materials



Comprehensive Lecture Notes   Note: CIF files must be downloaded and used with Mercury 1.3 Software;
PDB files require RasWin, while ENT files can be read by HyperChem 5.1
  (Warning: do NOT use Mercury to visualize PDB files or MCIF files)

 

Lecture 1  (PP Slides)   Lecture 2  (PP Slides)   Lecture 3   (PP Slides)  Lecture 4 (PP Slides)   Lecture 5  (PP Slides)

 

Lecture 6/7 (Lecture 6 PP Slides) (Lecture 7 PP Slides) Lecture 8 (Lecture 8 PP Slides) Lecture 9 (Lecture 9 PP Slides)

 

Lecture 10/11 (Lecture 10 Slides) (Lecture 11 Slides)  Lecture 12  (Lecture 12 Slides)   Lecture 13   (Lecture 13 Slides)

 

Lecture 14  Powder Spreadsheet  Germanium model   (Lecture 14 PP Slides)   Lecture 15    (Lecture15 PP Slides)

 

Lecture 16    (Lecture 16 PP Slides)    Lecture 17   (Lecture 17 PP Slides)   CCD-Diffractometer    Lecture 18

 

(Lecture 18 PP Slides)   Lecture 19   (Lecture 19 PP Slides)   Lecture 20   (Lecture 20 PP Slides)   Lecture 21

 

Lecture 21 PP Slides   Lecture 22   Lecture 22 PP Slides   Lecture 23   Lecture 24   Lecture 25  CIF File Guide  

 

Lecture 28 incl article   CIF file for Lecture 28   Lecture 29 incl article  CIF File for Lecture 29     Lectures 30/31

 

Lecture 32  CaATPase.pdb  CaATPase.ent   (Lecture 32 PP Slides)     Lecture 33    Craig Wheaton - Crystal Engineering*  

Kevin Johnson - Pericyclic Reactions in SS    Tim Janzen - Synchrotron radiation

Steve Robbins - Absolute Structure Determination     Lesley Rutledge - Drug Design


Problem Sets and Answers  Note: CIF and Excel files must be downloaded, not opened!

PS #1  Answers to PS #1*    PS #2    Answers to PS #2   PS #3  Answers to PS#3

PS #4    Excel file 1D_Fourier    BRODAC.cif    Answers to PS#4    PS #5    Data Link for PS #5    Answers to PS#5*

PS #6   Chivers.cif   Lichtblau.cif    Robles.cif    Wan&Verkade.cif     Answers to PS #6*   

* Files marked with asterisk may be too large for easy downloading over a slow connection - best viewed from the Campus network


Testing   Note: CIF files must be downloaded and used with Mercury  Software

Answers Test#1     Answers  Test#2     Carine Files: Anatase unit cell      Polyhedron model   41 axis    m plane        

Answers Test#3      Answers Test #4     test4.hkl    test4.p4p  Answers Test#5     test5.hkl    test5.p4p


Laboratory      SHELXTL Users Manual

Lab01 Symmetry        Lab02 Lattices       Lab03 SpaceGroups     Lab04 Powder XRD

Lab05 Massa Worked Example      Private Data    Lab06 Crystal Reports    Lab07 Protein

Lab08 Databases and Disorder      Lab08.hkl    Lab08.p4p


Periodic Table          Useful Links