Crystallographic and Diffraction Courses on-line

A Practical course in X-ray diffraction is taught once a year at the Chemistry Department of Texas A & M University.

X-ray Practicals Room 2121 August 24-28 2009 Instructor: Joseph Reibenspies Ph.D.

Synopsis.

This course is intended to teach students how to use the X-ray diffraction instrumentation available in the department. See Course Materials TAB for details, class notes and data.

The XSEED tutorial is part of a LAPTOP university course. Students are encouraged to download the programs to their laptops and bring the laptops to class.The XSEED program can be downloaded from http://x-seed.net/ and will run without registration for the first 30 sessions. Be sure to download POVRAY (http://www.povray.org/download/).

Files used in the tutorial are on the Course Materials TAB : Examples

WINGX download (not required, but useful) http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~louis/software/wingx/

All programs should be fully functional at the time of the class. The instructor cannot spend class time setting up computers

2009 : Notes for Practical course.

Demonstration

Spinning Cyclen

Course Material

Day 1.

Introduction to X-ray Crystallography

Day 2.

Data Collection Beginners

Data Collection Advanced