Congratulations to Part II student Masa Tonoki for winning a poster prize at the recent BCA Spring Meeting conference for his poster. The Prize was awarded by the Young Crystallographer’s Group of the BCA and sponsored by MiTeGen for his poster “A Monte Carlo Approach for Resolving Disordered Solvent Molecules in Crystal Structures”.… Read the rest
The Chemical Crystallography Group and X-ray Crystallography Facility are located in the Chemistry Research Laboratory, Mansfield Road, Oxford. X-ray crystallography was established in Oxford in 1929 and has been part of the Department of Chemistry since 1946.
In addition to world-class X-ray diffraction facilities, Chem. Cryst. has an active research group and is home … Read the rest
This year’s Part II students have risen to the challenge of working remotely for three months, and celebrated handing in their research theses this week. Watch this space for publications arising from their investigations. 
The CRYSTALS 15.0.1 (v7809) installer for Windows 7/10 is now available. This is a quick patch release following the release of v7795.
Please report problems. The version number refers to a specific snapshot of the source code enabling us to better identify and fix bugs.
Key changes between 15.7795 and 15.7809
This is a … Read the rest
The CRYSTALS 15 (v7795) installer for Windows 7/10 is now available.
Please report problems. The version number refers to a specific snapshot of the source code enabling us to better identify and fix bugs.
Key changes between 14.6999 and 15.7795
This release of CRYSTALS has changed the way the software is installed, so that … Read the rest
A big welcome to Chem Cryst to our new cohort of Part II students for 2019/20: Noah Francis, Aditya Desai and Natalie Haarer. … Read the rest
The CRYSTALS v6999 installer for Windows 7/10 is now available.
Please report problems. The version number (6999) refers to a specific snapshot of the source code enabling us to better identify and fix bugs.
Key changes between 14.6720 and 14.6999
Added some trial shortcut keys to the menus. Ctrl-O: open file dialog, Ctrl-R: setup … Read the rest
Though it should be an off-year, the long-running biennial Zurich School of Crystallography visited the Health Science Platform of the University of Tianjin in June 2018 to teach a group of international researchers how to use single crystal X-ray crystallography.
Richard Cooper joined the Swiss delegation of tutors and gave lectures on space group determination … Read the rest
The 2018 Meeting of the British Crystallographic Association was held at Warwick University where Chem. Cryst. was well represented. The meeting started with the Young Crystallographers Satellite meeting, during which Lewis Morgan’s oral presentation was so “eggsellent” that he won the Industrial Group Prize for the best talk, and with it, the dubious honour of … Read the rest
The CRYSTALS v6720 installer is now available.
This update uses a new 64-bit Fortran compiler, fixes a number of bugs and eliminates a few mysterious crashes. Please report problems. The version number now refers to a specific snapshot of the source code enabling us to better identify and fix bugs.
Key changes between v14.6237 … Read the rest
