We are a leading high resolution X-ray crystallography group. The laboratory is equipped with both serial and area detector diffractometers capable of handling samples down to liquid nitrogen temperatures. One instrument fitted with a copper radiation source is used for the determination od the absolute configuration of purely organic materials. Every student in the laboratory has their own high-specification Pentium PC, and other PCs are available to outside students. The laboratory has a high profile outside of Oxford, with members regularly being invited to speak at National and International meetings.
Students based in the laboratory also have the opportunity to learn computer programming.
No previous experience with computers is necessary. There is always a wide range of Part II and D.Phil. We collaborate closely with groups from the ICL, OCMS and the DP so that we can find projects for students interested in almost any kind of chemistry from purely inorganic, through organo-metallic to the products of chiral syntheses. The development of software for automated structure analysis and structure evaluation. The new generation of area detector diffractometers have enormous data collection capabilities.