Apr 152010
 

Cryst. Rev. (2010), 16(2), 133-144.    [ doi:10.1080/08893110903483238 ]

Recent developments in crystallographic error analysis are described. This report provides an introduction to more-formal work, originally published in Ref. (Haestier, J., J. Appl. Cryst. 2009, 42, 798). Prior to the main discussion, a brief overview of the normal distribution and error-propagation is provided, with some simplified examples to demonstrate the effects of covariance terms on error calculations. A new method is described for absorbing the cell-parameter errors into the variance-covariance matrix of the refined parameters. Problems occur for monoclinic and triclinic cell settings as the crystallographer must ‘choose’ how errors on the cell angles affect the coordinates. The choice has no effect on error-calculations on the internal geometry (bond-lengths, angles and torsion angles) of the structure, but may introduce a bias if the errors are used as weights.

Apr 152010
 
Susan Huth presents Kirsten Christensen with the Durward Cruickshank Award

Susan Huth presents Kirsten Christensen with the Durward Cruickshank Award

The final dinner of the British Crystallographic Association Spring Meeting in Warwick was interrupted, as always, with the prize winning awards. Amber Thompson was awarded the International Union of Crystallography Prize (a copy of International Tables) for her explanation of the advantages of choosing non-standard space groups. Kirsten Christensen was awarded the Durward Cruickshank prize for a young crystallographer who had made an outstanding contribution to crystallography.

 

 

Other contributions include:

N. David Brown, James Haestier, Mustapha Sadki, Amber L. Thompson & David J. Watkin
matchbOx:  Automatic Structure Matching to Facilitate Crystallographic Refinement (YC Presentation)

Kirsten E. Christensen, Christopher J. Serpell, Nicholas E. Evans & Paul D. Beer
Pushing the Boundaries of Small Molecule Crystallography:  The Challenging Structure of a Macrocyclic Anion Sensor (Poster)

Richard I. Cooper, Amber L. Thompson & David J. Watkin
The Hydrogen Challenge:  Where are we Now? (Poster)

Christopher J. Serpell & Paul D. Beer
Refinement of Large Supramolecular Structures (Presentation)

David J. Watkin
Dealing with Difficult Data (Session Chair)