500,000th Crystal Structure Milestone Reached

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) is proud to announce the archiving of the 500,000th small molecule crystal structure to the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)

"The determination of 500,000 crystal structures is a remarkable achievement. However, the scientific community is hungry for the next 500,000 and the knowledge these will undoubtedly bring. As the CSD grows both in size and in the complexity of structures it contains, the database not only helps us to answer our questions about molecular structure and interactions, but tells us what those questions should be."

-Dr Colin Groom, Executive Director of the CCDC

Click on the structure above to view in WebCSD, or read the full press release.