The great gift of x-ray crystallography has made us almost complacent in our ability to locate the three-dimensional coordinates of atoms in a crystal with a precision of around 10−4 nm. However, the powerful methods of crystallography break down for structures in which order only extends over a few nanometers. In fact, as we near the one hundred year mark since the birth of crystallography, we...

During the last decade, the number of three-dimensional structures solved by X-ray crystallography has increased dramatically. By 2014, it had crossed the landmark of 100 000 biomolecular structures deposited in the Protein Data Bank. This tremendous increase in successfully crystallized proteins is primarily owing to improvements in cloning strategies, the automation of the crystallization pro...

Multicluster molecules [Cp(*)IrS2C2(B10H10)]n(L)[n= 3 (L = tpt), 2 (L = bpy)], connected with pyridyl-based ligands, were prepared and characterized by X-ray crystallography.

The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) aims at Grid-enabling a wide range of scientific instruments and sensors to enable easy access to and sharing and storage of data produced by these instruments and sensors. This paper describes the implementation of CIMA applied to the field of single-crystal X-ray crystallography. To allow the researchers to easily view the current and past ...

Four rhenium(I) chromophores attached to a dirhodium(n) core form a new hexametallic light-harvesting assembly as characterised by X-ray crystallography, UV-vis spectroscopy and electrochemistry.

The binding interactions of cucurbit[8]uril (Q[8]) with l -valine, d -leucine, and -methionine, both in aqueous solution solid state, have been studied by 1 H NMR spectroscopy X-ray crystallography.

Since the Protein Data Bank (PDB) was founded in 1971, there are now over 120,000 depositions, the majority of which are from X-ray crystallography and 90% of those made use of synchrotron beamlines. At the Cambridge Structure Database (CSD), founded in 1965, there are more than 800,000 'small molecule' crystal structure depositions and a very large number of those are relevant in the bioscienc...