Crystallography Course
This course equips you with essential skills in single-crystal X-ray diffraction tailored for practical chemistry challenges. It covers crystal selection and preparation, data acquisition strategies, space group determination, structure solution and refinement, validation processes, and creating publication-ready reports for small-molecule and organometallic compounds, ensuring you can handle real-world crystallographic tasks effectively.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
Gain hands-on expertise in single-crystal X-ray diffraction through this detailed course, covering crystal selection, mounting, data collection strategies, unit cell determination, space group identification, and structure solving. Master refinement methods, validation techniques, and reporting protocols to produce dependable structures, high-quality visuals, and publication-standard CIF files confidently.
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Develop skills
- Solve crystal structures swiftly using direct, Patterson, and dual-space techniques.
- Refine intricate models by managing twinning, disorder, atomic displacement parameters, and hydrogen atoms.
- Optimise data collection through crystal selection, strategy planning, and quality checks.
- Determine space groups by indexing unit cells, checking systematic absences, and addressing pseudosymmetry.
- Validate structures with PLATON/checkCIF and generate publication-ready CIF files.
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