Welcome to our new cohort of Part II students for 2015/16
Sep 242015
Jun 232015
Chemical Science 2015, 6, 5293-5302
[doi:10.1039/c5sc01812a]
The nucleophilic reactivity of fluoride ion is altered in the presence of hydrogen-bond donors, including alcohols. Relatively little is known about the coordination involved; to rectify this, the X-ray structures of fourteen novel fluoride–alcohol complexes with tetrabutylammonium as the counterion have been determined. The coordination number … Read the rest
Apr 032015
Congratulations to Sophie Gearing who won an RSC CrystEngComm poster prize at the British Crystallographic Association Meeting in York for her poster “Does it Crystallise?” which presented studies of the crystallinity in a set of molecular materials.
Her research tests predictions made in recent research by Jerome Wicker by using combinatorial synthesis to access a … Read the rest
Mar 202015
Co-crystal Palace (with two players loaned from Real Space Madrid) lost graciously to visiting team West Bromwich Synchrotron on 20th March 2015. Mar 202015
Congratulations to Karim Sutton for passing his D.Phil examination on Friday on his thesis “Determining Structure and Atomic Properties of Materials using Resonant X-ray Diffraction“.… Read the rest
Toward the Understanding of Modulation in Molecular Materials: Barluenga's Reagent and its Analogues
Oct 302014
Crystal Growth & Design (2014). 14 (12), 6294–6301. [ doi:10.1021/cg500983s ]
Investigations into the phase transition of Barluenga’s reagent revealed a transient incommensurately modulated phase. To understand the origin of the modulated phase and the chemistry that can affect it, analogues of Barluenga’s reagent were synthesized and studied. In this context, the halogen and anion … Read the rest
Oct 142014
29 October 2014 – Somerville College
UNESCO and the International Union of Crystallography will join Somerville this October to host a symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the award of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
The Symposium will take place in Oxford on Wednesday 29th October and will feature a number of distinguished … Read the rest
Sep 242014
Welcome to our new cohort of Part II students for 2014/15: Felix Easton-Smith, Sophie Gearing and Charlotte Kirk.
Aug 182014
The Chemistry Between Them, a new play by Adam Ganz will be first broadcast on Radio 4 on Wednesday 20th August at 14:15. The play examines the life-long friendship between Nobel Prize winning crystallographer Professor Dorothy Hodgkin and her former student (and Chem. Cryst. alumna) Margaret Thatcher. Despite their extremely different political viewpoints, the … Read the rest
Aug 172014
The triennial congress of the International Union of Crystallography was held in Montreal over 8 days in August 2014.
Contributions to the meeting from Chem. Cryst. staff and students included:
Richard I. Cooper and James A. Arnold:
Displacement Parameter Restraints for Dealing with Limited Data
Karim J. Sutton, Pascal Parois and Richard I Cooper:… Read the rest