(Emeritus) Prof. Dr. Anthony L. Spek (1944)

CV

Crystal & Structural Chemistry
Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research
Utrecht University
Padualaan 8
Utrecht
The Netherlands

Phone (+31) 653562400
E-mail address: a.l.spek@uu.nl

Distributed PLATON Software

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

PLATON may be obtained via Download Page

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

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

Lecture on Structure Interpretation by Huub Kooijman

Papers on Single Crystal Structure Validation

Single Crystal Structure Validation with the program PLATON

Structure Validation in Chemical Crystallography

What makes a crystal structure report valid?

checkCIF validation ALERTS: what they mean and how to respond

Paper on the PLATON/SQUEEZE procedure

A tool for the calculation of the disordered solvent contribution to the calculated structure factors

Absolute Structure Determination

Hooft y parameter: Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2008, Volume 41, pages 96-103

See also Rob Hooft's Website on Absolute Structure.

Rigaku Oxford Diffraction

Bruker

Stoe

Oxford Cryosystems

Pointers to Selected World Wide Web Sites

IUCr-Computing Commission
International Union of Crystallography
I.C.S.D. WWW Site (CAOS/CAMM-Nijmegen-account required)
CAMM WWW Site (CAOS/CAMM-Nijmegen-account required)
European Crystallographic Association
American Crystallographic Association
British Crystallographic Association
ACA Service Crystallography SIG
American Chemical Society
Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kristallografie
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center
PLATON for MS-Windows - Home Page (Dr L.J. Farrugia, Glasgow)
Home of DIRDIF and CRUNCH
CCP14-Collaborative Computational Project
The SHELX Homepage
The DRAWxtl Homepage (drawing polyhedra)
ps2pdf
Video taped lectures 'Physics for future Presidents' by R.A. Muller, Berkeley
Interesting UK-based Forum
CCDC/Referee
UU-Library/Chemistry (local)
WEBofScience (local)
IUCr-World Directory

Author Statistics in the CSD

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)

On-Line IUCR-Journals

 Acta Crystallographica Section A

Acta Crystallographica Section B

Acta Crystallographica Section C

Acta Crystallographica Section D

Acta Crystallographica Section E

Journal of Applied Crystallography

IUCRJ

Journal of Synchrotron Radiation

CHECKCIF-Non IUCr Journals
CHECKCIF
PRINTCIF
C-submit
E-submit

Last update: 18-Dec-2019 A.L.Spek (www.cryst.chem.uu.nl) (www.platonsoft.nl)