Acquisition of an X-ray Diffractometer with CCD Detector

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This award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Program (CRIF) and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (OMA) will help the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University acquire an X-ray diffractometer equipped with a CCD detector. The equipment will enhance research in a number of on-going projects involving electron transfer in inorganic systems, solid state catalysts and other material, structural inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, metal cluster formation, and bioinorganic chemistry and metalloproteins. 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.