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CHEM 261Practical X-Ray Crystallography

4 units · CHEM · UC San Diego

A survey of the fundamentals of single-crystal X-ray diffraction for the purpose of collecting and refining structural information on molecular solids and related materials. Course covers basics of X-ray diffraction, instrumentation for diffraction data collection, crystalline habits and space group symmetry and introduction to the software required for data acquisition, structure solution, refinement.

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Prerequisites

From the catalog: “graduate standing or consent of instructor.”