Durham Crystallography School
29 March-5 April, Durham University (UK)
The Durham Crystallography School is an intensive program designed for early-career scientists with some experience in X-ray structure analysis.
It aims to enhance understanding of the principles and practices involved. The schedule includes lectures and tutorial sessions in a friendly environment.
Topics Covered
- Growth and evaluation of non-macromolecular crystals
- Space group determination
- Background theory to data acquisition for small molecules and inorganics
- Practical aspects of data collection
- Practical aspects of data processing
- Fourier syntheses
- Patterson syntheses and direct methods for crystal structure determination
- Charge flipping
- Refinement of inorganic, organic and metal–organic structures
- Derivation of results
- Random and systematic errors
- Twinning
- Validation of results
- Crystallographic databases (CSD, ICSD, etc.)