a new nano-sized cobalt(ii) coordination polymer, (col1).0.5dmf.1.5ch3oh(1); [h2l1 = 5-(4-carboxy phenyl azo) salicyilic acid] has been synthesized by a sonochemical method. the thermal stability of compound 1 was studied by thermo- gravimetric and differential thermal analyses. nano-structure of this coordination polymer was characterized by elemental analyses, ir spectroscopy,  powder x-ray d...

The xPDFsuite software program is described. It is for processing and analyzing atomic pair distribution functions (PDF) from X-ray powder diffraction data. It provides a convenient GUI for SrXplanr and PDFgetX3, allowing the users to easily obtain 1D diffraction pattern from raw 2D diffraction images and then transform them to PDFs. It also bundles PDFgui which allows the users to create struc...

Serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography (SFX) has created new opportunities in the field of structural analysis of protein nanocrystals. The intensity and timescale characteristics of the X-ray free-electron laser sources used in SFX experiments necessitate the analysis of a large collection of individual crystals of variable shape and quality to ultimately solve a single, average crystal stru...

The powder diffractometer at the Australian National Beamline Facility makes extensive use of imaging plates as a detector system. On this instrument, a Weissenberg screen and translatable imaging plate cassette allow a series of up to 35 complete powder patterns to be taken in rapid succession. The high sensitivity and dynamic range of imaging plates mean that exposure times of as little as tw...

The power of the state-of-the-art neutron powder diffractometer suite at the Institut Laue–Langevin for investigating the structure of nondeuterated materials is presented using gypsum, CaSO4 2H2O, as a reference material. It is shown that flexible modern neutron powder diffraction instruments at reactorbased sources can yield data with sufficient counting statistics above the incoherent scatte...

IN THE CATION OF THE TITLE COMPOUND [SYSTEMATIC NAME: 1-(3-cyclo-hexyl-3-hy-droxy-3-phenyl-prop-yl)piperidinium chloride], C(20)H(32)NO(+)·Cl(-), the cyclo-hexyl and piperidine rings are in chair conformations. In the crystal structure, cations and anions are linked into chains along the c-axis direction via O-H⋯Cl and N-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds. Weak inter-molecular C-H⋯Cl inter-actions link furthe...

Macromolecular structures are traditionally determined by means of single crystal X ray diffraction from protein crystals of micrometer dimensions. Nevertheless, the growth of good quality single crystals can be very difficult or even impossible, especially in cases of large proteins, membrane proteins or protein complexes. Modern developments of X-ray powder diffraction have allowed the struct...

A new high-temperature XRD instrument, utilizing multilayer optics and a custom furnace, has been developed to maximize sensitivity and minimize problems associated with sample displacement. This paper will describe the technical specifications of the new instrument, and will present temperature calibration with standard reference materials and measurement of phase evolution in an industrial gl...

The title mol-ecule, C19H18N4O2 {systematic name: (RS)-6-[2-(4-meth-oxy-phen-yl)-1H-benzimidazol-5-yl]-5-methyl-4,5-di-hydro-pyridazin-3(2H)-one}, adopts an extended conformation. The dihedral angles between the central benzimidazole ring sytem and the pendant meth-oxy-phenyl and pyridazinone residues are 1.41 (18) and 9.7 (3)°, respectively. In the crystal, N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds link the imadaz...