Replacement of the departmental X-ray diffractometer

部门x射线衍射仪是1997年购买的布鲁克仪器。该系晶体学家Alan Lough博士运行这台仪器，安装由化学系和加拿大其他大学以及世界各地的14个研究小组提供的晶体，并解决它们的结构，每年大约300个。衍射仪的机械部件开始磨损，探测器和软件也过时了。为了提高测定分子结构的效率和质量，建议用一种更高效、更灵敏的现代衍射仪取代衍射仪。目前的x射线源是钼。由于确定药物和其他精细化学应用的对映纯有机化合物的绝对构型的需求增加，因此该提案要求铜源。

The Departmental X-ray Diffractometer is a Bruker instrument purchased in 1997. Departmental Crystallographer Dr Alan Lough runs this instrument, mounts crystals supplied by 14 research groups in the Department of Chemistry and from other Universities in Canada and around the world and solves their structures, about 300 per year. The mechanical parts of the diffractometer are starting to wear and the detector and software are obsolete. This is a proposal to replace the diffractometer with a modern, more productive and sensitive one in order to increase efficiency and quality of the molecular structures determined. The X-ray source is currently molybdenum. This proposal requests a copper source since there is increased demand to determine the absolute configuration of enantiopure organic compounds targetted to drug and other fine chemical applications.