Upgrade of X-Ray Diffractometer

这份来自化学研究仪器和设施项目的合同将帮助蒙大拿州立大学化学系升级其x射线衍射实验室。获得该设备将支持的主要项目包括：有机合成；有机体系的有机-金属转化；非刚性分子的优选结构激光材料中稀土掺杂晶体的研究植物微生物生物活性代谢物的研究Polynues;多核桥接混合价铂化合物。单晶x射线晶体学是测定固体结构最有效的分析方法。在合成无机、有机、生物无机和有机金属化学中，单晶x射线衍射是表征分子结构的宝贵工具。从分子组成和结构的知识中获得的信息有助于在催化或合成中开发具有潜在普遍兴趣的新反应。

This award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Program will help the Department of Chemistry at Montana State University upgrade its x-ray diffraction laboratory. Major projects supported by acquisition of this equipment will include: Organic Synthesis; Organometallic Transformations of Organic Systems; Preferred Structures of Non-Rigid Molecules; Rare Earth Doped Crystals for Laser Materials; Characterizations of Bioactive Metabolites from Plant Microbes; Polynues; Polynuclear Bridged Mixed Valence Platinum Compounds. Single crystal x-ray crystallography is the most powerful analytical method for structure determination of solids. In synthetic inorganic, organic, bioinorganic and organometallic chemistry, single crystal x-ray diffraction is an invaluable tool to characterize molecular structure. The information gained from the knowledge of the molecular composition and structure helps to develop new reactions of potentially general intereral interest in catalysis or synthesis.