MRI: Acquisition of a Cyber-enabled Benchtop Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer for Small Molecule Structure Analysis for Research and Educational Purposes.

凭借主要研究仪器计划(MRI)的这一奖项，来自圣马科斯的德克萨斯州立大学的Benjamin R.Martin及其同事Gary W.Beall、Michael Blander和Debra Fekers将获得一种所谓的迷你类型的单晶X射线衍射仪，这也将使德克萨斯州五所学校的财团受益。这些学校已经建立了一个合作研究项目。该仪器将加强研究工作，并在以下领域引发新的探索：硫化物和硒材料，过渡金属氰化物络合物中的固态键异构体和配体取代，固定化杯[6]芳烃的构象异构体，多面体硼烷阴离子，硫桥铁化合物和镍(II)二聚体的磁结构研究，钛络合物的制备，以及来自拉马尔大学、圣安东尼奥学院、得克萨斯路德大学和山姆休斯顿州立大学的合作者提出的各种课题。合作机构将把重点放在研究生和本科生的动手研究上。单晶X射线结晶学技术可以准确和精确地确定分子的完整三维结构，包括键距离和角度，并提供关于分子相对于邻近分子的空间排列的准确信息。这些研究将在许多领域产生影响，从合成化学到具有生物学意义的系统和环境的清洁。

With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation program (MRI), Benjamin R. Martin and colleagues Gary W. Beall, Michael Blander, and Debra Feakes from the Texas State University-San Marcos will acquire a single-crystal X-ray diffractometer of the so-called mini-type that will also benefit a consortium of five schools across Texas. These schools have established a collaborative research program. The instrumentation will strengthen research endeavors and spark new explorations in areas involving sulfide and selenide materials, solid state linkage isomerism and ligand substitution in transition metal cyanide complexes, conformational isomers of immobilized calix[6]arenes, polyhedral borane anions, sulfido-bridged iron compounds and magnetostructural studies of Ni(II) dimers, preparation of titanium complexes as well as a variety of topics proposed by collaborators from Lamar University, San Antonio College, Texas Lutheran University and Sam Houston State University. The collaborating institutions will place a strong emphasis on hands-on graduate and undergraduate involvement in research.The technique of single-crystal X-ray crystallography allows accurate and precise determination of the full three dimensional structure of a molecule, including bond distances and angles, and it provides accurate information about the spatial arrangement of molecules relative to the neighboring molecules. These studies will have an impact in a number of areas ranging from synthetic chemistry to systems of biological interest and cleaning of the environment.