Details of Grant

EPSRC Reference:

GR/M81830/01

Title:

AN AREA DETECTOR DIFFRACTOMETER FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

Principal Investigator:

Other Investigators:

Walkinshaw, Professor M	Rankin, Professor D	Mount, Professor A
Tasker, Professor P	Gould, Dr R	Pulham, Professor C
Winpenny, Professor RE	Harrison, Professor A

Researcher Co-Investigators:

Project Partners:

Department:

Sch of Chemistry

Organisation:

University of Edinburgh

Scheme:

Standard Research (Pre-FEC)

Starts:

01 October 1999

Ends:

30 June 2003

Value (£):

363,399

EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:

Chemical Structure

EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:

Chemicals	Electronics
Food and Drink	Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology
Energy	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors

Related Grants:

Panel History:

Summary on Grant Application Form

A new CCD-diffractometer will support over two-thirds of the research performed at this institution, and will foster collaborative links with Biochemistry and Physics. Five projects are described in detail:i) Crystal structure and charge density determinations of low-melting compounds by in situ crystallisation; comparisons of structures in the gas phase, and in the solid state at low temperature or high pressure .ii) Studies of large polyoxometallic complexes which have novel magnetic properties and are models for co-ordination of industrially active ligands on highly-oxidised metal surfaces.iii) Studies of co-crystals of alkaloids and carbohydrates. This will enable crystallographic methods to be applied to oligosaccharides, which are notoriously difficult to crystallise in their pure state.iv) Elucidation of the factors controlling electrocrystallisation using in situ diffraction.v) Characterisation of hydrothermal growth and microwave synthesis by in situ diffraction. The new instrument will not only enhance our present facilities: we will be in a position to perform completely novel types of experiments.

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