Structure of organic solids at low temperature and high pressure
This tutorial review looks at structural and supramolecular chemistry of molecular solids under extreme conditions, and introduces the instrumentation and facilities that enable single crystal diffraction studies on molecular crystals at both high pressure and low temperature. The equipment used for...
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| Published in | Chemical Society reviews Vol. 43; no. 13; pp. 43 - 4311 |
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| Main Authors | , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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England
07.07.2014
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| Summary: | This tutorial review looks at structural and supramolecular chemistry of molecular solids under extreme conditions, and introduces the instrumentation and facilities that enable single crystal diffraction studies on molecular crystals at both high pressure and low temperature. The equipment used for crystallography under extreme conditions is explored, particularly pressure cells such as the diamond anvil cell, and their mechanism of action, as well as the cryogenic apparatus which allows materials to be cooled to significantly low temperatures. The review also covers recent advances in the structural chemistry of molecular solids under extreme conditions with an emphasis on the use of single crystal crystallography in high pressure and low temperature environments to probe polymorphism and supramolecular interactions.
This tutorial review summarises the current state of the art in low temperature and high pressure crystallography of molecular organic and coordination compounds. |
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| Bibliography: | Michael R. Probert graduated from the University of Oxford in 2001 and carried out his PhD at Durham University with Judith Howard. He remained in Durham as a Research Associate developing new experimental instrumentation for high pressure and low temperature crystallography. In 2013 he took up a position as Lecturer in crystallography at Newcastle University. His research focuses on the study of molecular systems under extreme conditions, ranging from simple organic compounds that exist as liquids under ambient conditions, to complex layered systems that undergo novel electronic and magnetic phase changes upon cooling or pressurising. Judith A. K. Howard has enjoyed a long and distinguished academic career, resulting in over 1100 publications and a number of awards, including a CBE for services to science (1996), the RSC Prize for Structural Chemistry (1998) and an EPSRC Senior Fellowship (1998-2003). She was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 2002. She has pioneered new techniques in cryo-crystallography, CCD detectors, high pressure crystallography and rotating anode sources. She initiated the development of the Helix open flow low temperature system and her group have created modern crystallographic software available as the open source program, Olex2. Jonathan W. Steed obtained his PhD from University College London in 1993, working on organometallic chemistry. After a NATO postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Missouri he joined Kings College London in 1995. In 2004 he joined Durham University where he is currently Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. Steed is co-author of the textbook Supramolecular Chemistry (2009) and editor of a number of reference works. He is the recipient of Durham's Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Teaching (2006) and the RSC Corday-Morgan Prize (2010). His interests are in solid state and pharmaceutical materials chemistry, supramolecular gels and crystal engineering. Rachael Lee was born in Hartlepool, UK in 1989. Deciding to remain a Northeast England local she obtained her MChem degree from Newcastle University in 2012 and then made the long and arduous journey 16 miles down the road to Durham University as a PhD candidate in the groups of Jonathan W. Steed and Michael R. Probert. Her research interests are geared towards inorganic and supramolecular chemistry, single crystal X-ray diffraction and high pressure crystallography. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0306-0012 1460-4744 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c4cs00046c |