Development of a Chemical Crystallography Resource Center

该奖项来自化学研究仪器和设施计划（CRIF）和主要研究仪器（MRI）计划，将协助亚利桑那大学化学系开发化学晶体学资源中心。为该中心购买的x射线设备将加强许多领域的研究，包括：(1)模型血红素复合物的x射线结构测定，(2)有机晶体的设计、合成和表征，(3)有机毒物的合成和表征，(4)具有相邻碳-金属键的硫醚的氧化还原化学，(5)共价连接的氧- mo (V)/Fe（II）卟啉中心。x射线衍射仪用于对分子的完整三维结构进行精确的测量。所获得的信息给出了给定分子的所有键距和键角的精确值，并给出了分子相对于邻近分子的空间排列的准确信息。

This award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Program (CRIF) and the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program will assist the Department of Chemistry at University of Arizona in developing a Chemical Crystallography Resource Center. The x-ray equipment purchased for the Center will enhance research in a number of areas including the following: (1) x-ray structure determinations of model heme complexes, (2) design, synthesis, and characterization of organic crystals, (3) synthesis and characterization of organic toxicants, (4) redox chemistry of thioethers with adjacent carbon-metal bonds, and (5) covalently linked oxo-Mo(V)/Fe(II)porphyrin centers. The X-ray diffractometer is used to make accurate and precise measurements of the full three dimensional structure of a molecule. The information obtained gives the precise values of all the bond distances and bond angles of a given molecule and it gives accurate information about the spatial arrangement of the molecule relative to the neighboring molecules.