Introduction to Crystallography for Part II and DPhil Students

An introductory lecture is given at the beginning of the academic year. This page lists useful resources that are mentioned or referenced in the talk.

The slides from the course below are available to download here: IntensiveCourseSlides.pdf. If you have any further questions, please drop in the X-ray Facility in the CRL basement or send an email.

Practical Crystallography for Chemists

Short Intensive Course in Single Crystal X-ray Structure Analysis

Monday 5th October Wolfson Seminar room, CRL
11.00 – 11.30 Introduction
12.00 – 13.00 Analysis / Sample prep

Thursday 8th October TMCS CDT room, PTCL
10.30 – 11.30 Experiment / Solution / Refinement
12.30 – 12.30 Problems / Disorder / Twinning
13.30 – 14.30 Hands-on analysis

X-ray structure analysis is one of the few techniques for unambiguously determining the composition, bonding and 3 dimensional structure of complex molecules.

This course will explain how the departmental X-ray analysis service works, what quality of samples it expects from the users, how you should interpret the crystallographic sections of published papers and, if you are interested, how you can become trained as a structure analyst.

The course includes hands-on data analysis examples during some of the sessions, for which you will need to bring a laptop running Windows.
Reserve a place on this course (DPhil and Post-doc researchers are also welcome), please e-mail: richard.cooper@chem.ox.ac.uk

Safety training

Safe use of X-ray generators, sealed sources and accelerators
Training has been arranged at Lecture Theatre, Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, South Parks Road on Wednesday 11th November, 2pm – 4pm.