National Single Crystal Service Facility

Faculty of Science
Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research
Crystal and Structural Chemistry
Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
Phone: (+31) 30 2533902, Fax: (+31) 30 2533940
E-mail:m.lutz@uu.nl





Staff of the National Single Crystal Service Facility

Dr M(artin). Lutz -- (photo-256kB)

Prof Dr A.L. Spek (Emeritus) -- (photo)

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.


Facilities

Diffractometers

- KappaCCD on Rotating Anode (FR591/MoKa) + Oxford Cryostream LNT

Computers

- 3GHz-XEON (LINUX) workstations

Anonymous FTP xraysoft.chem.uu.nl


Single Crystal Structure Determination Service

Academic Users

A price list for crystal structure determinations is available from M. Lutz.

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

Non-academic users are charged

Please contact Dr. M.Lutz (phone: 030-2533902, fax: 030-2533940 or E-mail) for further information.


Education

- Course 'Interpretation of Crystal Structure Determinations'. Information on this course is available here and a registration form for the 2010 course is available here (10-Jun. and 11-Jun.).

- 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 A Multipurpose Crystallographics Tool, including:
PLUTON - Molecular Graphics (Ball & Sticks),
SQUEEZE - Handling the Contribution of Disordered Solvent,
ADDSYM - Search for Missed Symmetry,
ASYM - Data Averaging and Analysis.,
LEPAGE - Search for Higher Metrical Symmetry,
STRUCTURE TIDY - Parthe & Gelato Standard Form for Inorganic Structures,
VALIDATION - Structure Validation,
S - Automated Structure Determination Shell

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

SHELXL97-Manual

Other Program manuals may be found here


Publications

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.


This Might Interest (Real) Crystallographers

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

Department of Crystal and Structural Chemistry


Last change 03-Feb-2010 e-mail to Ton Spek