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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · 4h

Yesterdays' Chemistry Nobel announcement has a close tie to crystallography, as one of the most commonly used techniques to study MOFs and determine their structure and connectivity is single crystal diffraction. Great news for the field of MOFs!

Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 1d

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi are this year's winners of the Nobel prize in chemistry for their work on MOFs – just a few grams of these materials can have the same surface area as a football pitch. Julia Robinson with the details.

2025 chemistry Nobel prize goes to the scientists behind metal–organic frameworks

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi take top prize for discovery and development of versatile materials with a huge surface area

www.chemistryworld.com

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · 5d

The Autumn Meeting of the @crystallography.org.uk Chemical Crystallography Group is being held online on October 22nd. There is still plenty of time to register, and we are still accepting abstracts for presentation. If you have interesting research to share, please submit!
@escg-bca.bsky.social

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · 6d

A recently accepted paper with @chemdudebrian.bsky.social
and @iainsmellie.bsky.social in Molbank (doi.org/10.3390/M2067). It contains the structure of a new unsymmetrical phenolphthalein derivative. @standrewschem.bsky.social

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · 6d

Somewhat belatedly, our latest accepted paper with collaborators at the Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia, formerly @standrewschem.bsky.social. Published in @iucrdata.iucr.org (doi.org/10.1107/S241...), the paper contains a single structure.

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · 20d

We have new instruments! Installed last week, a pair of Rigaku XTALab Synergy-S diffractometers. Looking forward to see how they handle our crystals!

Thanks to the @rigakuoxfordxrd.bsky.social installation team and @ukri.org and @uniofstandrews.bsky.social for funding.
@standrewschem.bsky.social

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Sep 4

And beyond! What will come to replace our rotating anodes? Wait and see! @standrewschem.bsky.social

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Sep 4

To this

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Sep 4

By way of this

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Sep 4

What has been behind out recent lack of posting...? As well as summer holidays, we have been having a lot of work done in the crystallography labs.
We have been transforming - from this

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Sep 4

Another recent acceptance with the @ezc-group.bsky.social. The service determined the structures of three of the emitters being investigated.

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Sep 4

Slightly belated details of another publication with the Aitken group, containing the structures of four previously unknown heterocyclic sulfones, published in Crystals: doi.org/10.3390/crys.... @standrewschem.bsky.social

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Aug 4

We were over in Glasgow last week to run some samples on their electron diffractometer. Bit of a learning curve on the electron microscopy elements, but some promising initial data from some of the samples. Now planning our next trip! @forganross.bsky.social @standrewschem.bsky.social

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Aug 4

A recently accepted paper with @chemdudebrian.bsky.social and @iainsmellie.bsky.social in Reactions (doi.org/10.3390/reac...). It contains the structure of 1,2,4-triphenyltriphenylene; part of an investigation of alternative solvents for Diels–Alder/cheletropic reaction sequences. @StAndrewsChem

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Aug 1

The IUCr is again running its crystal growing competition for younger scientists. If you know school-aged children who might be interested, there is background information and details of the competition available at www.iucr.org/outreach/cry....

(IUCr) Crystal growing competition

www.iucr.org

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Jul 23

Another recently accepted paper with the EZC group. The service determined the structure of the MR-TADF emitter being investigated.

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Jul 23

The latest published paper in our ongoing collaboration with the Saha group at the University of Kalyani, in the Journal of Molecular Structure, doi.org/10.1016/j.mo..., the paper contains the structure of a dinculear complex determined by the service. @standrewschem.bsky.social

St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Jul 7

A recently accepted paper with @chemdudebrian.bsky.social and @iainsmellie.bsky.social in Molbank - doi.org/10.3390/M2007. It contains the structure of 3′H-spiro[dibenzo[c,h]xanthene-7,1′-isobenzofuran]-3′-one, first isolated in 1871 and identified in 1920. @StAndrewsChem

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Jul 7

For early-career crystallographers, the IUCr awards the Struchkov Prize (iucr.org/iucr/struchk...) every three years. Applications are now open, the prize will be presented at @iucr2026.bsky.social

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Jul 7

A recently published paper with the Payne and Ohadi groups in @natcomms.nature.com. The service worked to provide structures for six 2D layered hybrid perovskites with intercalating halogens. @StAndrewsChem

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Jul 2

A recently accepted paper with the @finmorr.bsky.social group in Inorg Chem (doi.org/10.1021/acs....). The service worked to provide structures for seven hybrid-perovskite (2D and 0D motifs) and related materials (1D motifs) across three temperatures. @standrewschem.bsky.social

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Jul 2

A recently accepted publication from the Westwood group in the forthcoming @faradaydiscussions.rsc.org meeting on Physical Chemistry for Lignin Valorisation (doi.org/10.1039/D5FD...). The service determined the structure of one lignin model compound. @standrewschem.bsky.social

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our latest publication with the Armstrong group, investigating a new Na-MOF material for use in Na-ion batteries. The struture of the MOF was determined by electron diffraction with the National Crystallography service.

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Jun 20

Our first accepted publication with the GossGroup in quite a while, published in MDPI Biomolecules (doi.org/10.3390/biom...) - congratulations to everyone. The service determined the structures of two of the compounds prepared. @standrewschem.bsky.social

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St Andrews X-Ray Crystallography @standrewsxray.bsky.social · Jun 13

A recently accepted paper with the EZC group. The service determined the structures of the two emitters being investigated. @standrewschem.bsky.social

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CCDC Cambridge @ccdc.cam.ac.uk · Jun 10

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