A research group in the US has successfully simplified a crystallographic technique that scientists, bar those behind the original technique, had struggled to get to grips with.
In 2013, Makoto Fujita’s group at the University of Tokyo in Japan unveiled a powerful tool that gave scientists the ability to analyse oils and liquids by x-ray crystallography, a seemingly impossible task. Upon incorporating these compounds into crystalline hosts, their molecules became ordered, and the compounds became susceptible to diffraction. Thus, armed with fresh insight, the method has provided the absolute structures of compounds where we’d previously been left in the dark. Read the full article in Chemistry World»
Read the orginal journal article in ChemComm:
The crystalline sponge method: MOF terminal ligand effects
Timothy R. Ramadhar, Shao-Liang Zheng, Yu-Sheng Chen and Jon Clardy
Chem. Commun., 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5CC03840E, Communication
