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Rigaku Spider X-ray diffractometer

A  Rigaku Spider X-ray diffractometer, funded via the MacDiarmid Institute, has been installed in the Institute's X-ray laboratory.  This instrument is designed for the structural analysis of small molecule and protein crystals and crystalline powders.  The X-ray source is a  microfocus rotating anode X-ray generator (Cu radiation). The high beam intensity and curved image plate detector are designed to allow challenging problems involving small and/or weakly diffracting crystals to be tackled. We have recently collected data on a needle-shaped crystal with short axes of around 2 microns; this yielded data that refined to better than 11%!

Several published structures from the Spider are now online ^{1 2 3}. 

Interested users are invited to contact Shane Telfer for further information.

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