Mercury

When Mercury is launched, it tries to detect whether or not the CSD is installed. If the CSD can be found, it is opened, and the structure navigator on the right hand side of the main Mercury window will then contain the refcodes of all the entries in the database.

 

If you have a CSD-format database that is not detected automatically by Mercury, you can open it by clicking Databases, followed by Database Location... Once opened the database will be added to the Databases menu.

 

You can use Mercury to view either your own crystal structures, or those retrieved from a ConQuest search. To view the hits from a ConQuest search in Mercury select Analyse Hitlist, from within ConQuest, and then View in Mercury from the pull-down menu. Alternatively, within ConQuest, select File from the top-level menu and View in Mercury from the resulting pull-down menu.

 

Different Mercury features are unlocked depending on your licence (see Registering the Different Mercury Components).