• 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

Prof Dr A.L. Spek (Emeritus 1-10-2009) -- (photo)

Vacancies

Former Co-Workers /Postdocs

Dr. B(iserka) Kojic-Prodic (Returned to Croatia)
Drs. A(uke) Meetsma (Returned to University of Groningen)
Drs. W(ilberth).J.J. Smeets (Out-of-Science)
Drs. N(ora) Veldman (Deceased)
Dr. E(rnst) Horn (Currently Japan)
Dr. M(iles) Lakin (Currently France)
Dr. S(tephan) Menzer (Moved to the U.K. / Stoe Company)
Dr D(ianna).D. Ellis (Crossley) (Returned to the U.K.)
Dr A(llison).M. Mills -- (photo-256kB) (Currently Germany, Dresden)
Dr. D(uncan).M. Tooke -- (photo) (Currently U.K., Oxford)
Dr H(uub). Kooijman -- (photo) (Currently Shell, Amsterdam, E-mail: huub.kooijman@shell.com).
Dr. L. von Chrzanowski
Dr. M(axime) A.M. Siegler. Moved to John Hopkins, Baltimore, USA.

xraysoft.chem.uu.nl.

Each submission should be accompanied by an application form (pdf) giving information about the crystals and the purpose of the crystal structure determination.

Non-academic Users

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

PowerPoint Presentations of lectures of A.L.S. at various meetings.

- Course 'Interpretation of Crystal Structure Determinations'. Information on this course is available here and a registration form for the 2009 course is available here (3-Feb. and 4-Feb.).

- Course 'Crystal Structure Determination using SYSTEM-S'. Information on this course is available here and a registration form for the 2009 course is available here (5-Feb.).

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

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

PLATON may be obtained via Download Page or anonymous ftp.

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

Hooft y parameter: Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2008, Volume 41, pages 96-103
See also Rob Hooft's Website on Absolute Structure.

Powerpoint Presentation Validation and Checking of Crystal Structures by A.J. Blake and A. Linden

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

Paper: Structure Validation in Chemical Crystallography

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

Crystal Growing, A collection of Tips and Pointers.

DIRAX, When you have indexing problems ..

Tricks of the Trade-ACA2007 Talks

Linux and Crystallographic Computing
Linux Applications in Crystallography
CCP14-LINUX-Link

Interesting UK-based Forum

The 10 Most-Cited Chemists (Thomson) and (THE)

Many Crystallographers are Highly-Cited Chemists

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

CHECKCIF-Non IUCr Journals
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Data for some Crystal Structures

Crystallographic Software Fayre (ECM25)

Department of Crystal and Structural Chemistry