Welcome to the X-ray Structural Facility of North Carolina State University, Raleigh. The Facility serves the structural needs of the Department of Chemistry, the University community and organizations in the Research Triangle area. Crystal and molecular structures are determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. The X-ray Structural Facility is located in 737 Dabney Hall

Facility Director: Dr. Paul D. Boyle.

Equipment:

Diffractometers

• Enraf-Nonius CAD4 diffractometer.
• Enraf-Nonius CAD4-MACH diffractometer with Low Temperature attachment.

Computing

• Silicon Graphics Workstation. MIPS R4400. Molecular Visualization/Computational Chemistry, Cambridge Structural Database server.
• Linux Workstation. PII-400. Crystallographic calculations.
• Linux Workstation. PII-400. Crystallographic Results server.
• Linux Workstation. PII-233. Diffractometer control, NFS server.

Resources:

Request for Structure Determination

Download a PDF of the Sample Submission Form from the link above.

Growing X-ray Quality Crystals

If you are interested in some tips on growing X-ray quality crystals, then try reading Growing Crystals that Will Make Your Crystallographer Happy. Naturally, if you want to share some of your favorite crystal growing recipies, feel free to email them to boyle@laue.chem.ncsu.edu

Softcopy Results

Softcopies of your crystallographic results can be downloaded via the Web.

Literature references

Literature references for software used in the crystallographic structure analyses done in this Facility are available to help you write up your results.

Other Resources

This server also has links to the X-ray Facility's anonymous ftp site for various Linux, DOS and Mac goodies, the Facility's Annual Report, and various on-line documentation.

Tutorial on X-ray Diffraction.

This is a nice graphic tutorial on diffraction.

Other Web Resources

Here are some other interesting or useful home pages concerning crystallography or chemistry.

• Crystallography Section of the WWW Virtual Library
• Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
• International Center for Diffraction Data (ICDD)
• American Crystallographic Association Web Sites
  • ACA Home Page
  • Service Crystallography Special Interest Group
  • Small Molecule Special Interest Group
• University of Pittsburgh X-ray Crystallography Lab (Chemistry)
• Birbeck College University of London, Department of Crystallography
• Bristol University X-ray Laboratory
• Pointer to other Chemistry Sites
• Web Sites of Bio-Molecular Interest
  • NIH's Molecular Modeling Home Page
  • Protein Data Bank at Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • NIH's PDB at a Glance
• Periodic Table Pages
• World Wide Web Virtual Library (Index)

Other major chemical instrumentation Facilities at NCSU are the:

• Mass Spectroscopy Facility
• NMR Facility

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