• Staff of the National Facility

• Crystal Structure Determination Service

• Facilities

• Distributed Software ( PLATON)

• Publications

• Education

• Interesting Crystallographic Issues

• Diffractometer Vendors

• Structure Validation

• PowerPoint Presentations

• Author Statistics in the CSD

• OnLine IUCr-Journals

• Selected Pointers to the WEB

Vacancies

Former Co-Workers /Postdocs

Dr. B. Kojic-Prodic (Returned to Croatia)
Drs. A. Meetsma (Returned to University of Groningen)
Drs. W.J.J. Smeets (Out-of-Science)
Drs. N. Veldman (Deceased)
Dr. E. Horn (Currently Japan)
Dr. M. Lakin (Currently France)
Dr. S. Menzer (Moved to the U.K. / Stoe Company)
Dr D.D. Ellis (Returned to the U.K.)
Dr A.M. Mills -- (photo-256kB) (Currently Germany, Dresden)
Dr. D.M. Tooke -- (photo) (Currently U.K., Oxford)
Dr H. Kooijman -- (photo) (Currently Shell, Amsterdam, E-mail: huub.kooijman@shell.com).

xraysoft.chem.uu.nl.

Each submission should be accompanied by a form giving information about the crystals and the purpose of the crystal structure determination. These submission forms are available in English and Dutch. Click in the following list to download the form of your choice:
- English PDF (Portable Document Format)
- English PS (Postscript format)
- Dutch PDF (Portable Document Format)
- Dutch PS (Postscript format)

Non-academic Users

Please contact Prof. Dr. A.L. Spek (phone: 030-2532538, fax: 030-2533940 or E-mail) for further information.

- Course 'Interpretation of Crystal Structure Determinations'. Information on this course is available here.

- A registration form for the 2006 course is available here (10-Nov. and 13-Nov.).

- A pdf version of the 2005 course notes (4.5 Mbyte) can be found here.

Distributed Software Developed or Implemented in the Context of this Facility.

EUHEDRAL - Program for the Refinement of the Crystal Shape (M.Lutz)

3D Fourier and VOID display (D.M.Tooke)

Manuals

Other Program manuals may be found here

Publications of the National NWO-CW/UU Facility

Paper on PLATON Structure Validation (Thomson-ISI: Hot Paper in Chemistry)

Troublesome Crystal Structures

TWINNING, All you always wanted to know about ...

Crystal Growing, A collection of Tips and Pointers.

DIRAX, When you have indexing problems ..

Linux and Crystallographic Computing
Linux Applications in Crystallography
CCP14-LINUX-Link
THE alternative for ...

Interesting US-based Forum
Interesting UK-based Forum

The 10 Most-Cited Chemists

Many Crystallographers are Highly-Cited Chemists

Aachen - Nov. 2006 ppt Crystal Structure Validation
Delft- Sep. 2006 ppt New Options in PLATON
Boston-Cambridge MIT Feb. 2006 ppt Crystal Structure Validation
Madison Sept. 2005 ppt PLATON Tutorial
Siena 2005 - Crystallographic Computing School ppt - Introductory Talk
Siena 2005 - Crystallographic Computing School ppt - Programming the Science of Crystallography
Siena 2005 - Crystallographic Computing School ppt - Structure Comparison, Analysis and Validation
Zaragoza 2005 ppt - Structure Validation: How to distinguish GOOD and reliable single crystal structures from BAD and UGLY reports
Zaragoza 2005 ppt PLATON Tutorial
ECM-22 Budapest 2004 ppt - The System-S Approach to Automated Structure Determination: Problems and Solutions.
Dick Marsh Symposium (ACA-Chicago-2004) ppt or pdf - Marshing, Past, Present and Future
Bruker-Nonius Meeting Madison-2003 ppt - PLATON-Tutorial
ECA-Durban-2003 ppt - SYSTEM-S, The Challenge of Automated Structure Determination
BCA-York-2003 ppt - Software Tools for the Analysis of Z' > 1 Structures
ACA-San Antonio-2002 ppt - The MISSYM Family: Software for the Detection of Missed or Pseudo Symmetry
IUCr-Geneva-2002 ppt - Automatic Detection of Poor or Incorrect Single Crystal Structures

Authors with 100+ Published Structures and Full Author List (CSD-Oct-1998)

Authors with 100+ Published Structures and Full Author List (CSD-Oct-1999)

Authors with 100+ Published Structures and Full Author List (CSD-Oct-2000)

Authors with 100+ Published Structures and Full Author List (CSD-Oct-2001)

Authors with 100+ Published Structures and Full Author List (CSD-Dec-2002)

Authors with 100+ Published Structures and Full Author List (CSD-Dec-2003)

Authors with 100+ Published Structures and Full Author List (CSD-Dec-2004)

Authors with 250+ Published Structures and Full Author List (CSD-Jan-2006)

PLATON/ADDSYM-CSD Example run

Rigaku MSC

Oxford Diffraction

Bruker-Nonius/AXS

Stoe

Oxford Cryosystems

Acta Crystallographica Section B

Acta Crystallographica Section C

Acta Crystallographica Section D

Acta Crystallographica Section E

Journal of Applied Crystallography

Journal of Synchrotron Radiation

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