66855 - Structural Determination of Solid Crystals

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Docente: Lucia Maini
  • Credits: 4
  • SSD: CHIM/03
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Photochemistry and molecular materials (cod. 8026)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will have a basic knowledge of structure determination and refinement from powder and single crystal diffraction data.

Course contents

Introduction to crystallography and X-ray diffraction. Instrument description and data collection strategy. Structure determination from single crystal diffraction with (WINGX and SHELX). Structure determination from powder diffraction with DASH.

Readings/Bibliography

Materials downlodable from internet

Teaching methods

Oral lessons supported by power point presentation and pratical tutorials with common crystallographic software ( WINGX, DASH) at computer lab.

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Oral lessons supported by power point presentation and pratical tutorials with common crystallographic software ( WINGX, DASH) at computer lab.

Office hours

See the website of Lucia Maini