An undergraduate at Pembroke, Rafal joined us for 5 weeks to carry out a summer research project between his 2nd and 3rd years. Rafal is working on the inclusion compounds of deoxycholic acid, particularly the nature of the host-guest binding and order-disorder phase transitions. When he’s not enjoying chemistry in the lab, Rafal can … Read the rest
Following his degree in Tokyo studying supramolecular complexes of achiral surfactant molecules with racemic and chiral aromatic guest molecules, Emmanuel travelled extensively. He has worked at the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission as Senior Scientific officer; at the Department of Chemistry in University of Ghana as Senior Lecturer; at the Department of Chemistry in Mississippi State … Read the rest
Dave is the Principal Beamline Scientist on the small-molecule single-crystal diffraction beamline, I19. Before his appointment at Diamond in 2006, Dave was a lecturer in The School of Physics at The University of Edinburgh and he laterally held an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship within The School of Chemistry. Apart from developing the beamline to improve … Read the rest
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Emma completed her Part II in 2011 in Chem. Cryst., but it seems we can’t get rid of her! Ever cheerful, she brings a spark of life to the lab and has come back for a bit to encourage us to write up the outstanding papers from her thesis, in particular her work chalcones and … Read the rest
Nia’s Part II project is focused on the preparation and systematic study of thiosemicarbazone complexes by single crystal X-ray diffraction. When not in the lab she may be found listening to music at live venues, or perhaps sampling some of Oxford’s fine real ales.… Read the rest
David is exploring the different ways of describing ring puckering and conformation. By using data in the CSD and avoiding the lab as much as possible, he hopes to create an amalgamated approach to defining ring puckering and conformation that could be implemented in refinement software. If he isn’t hiding in the CRL basement he’s … Read the rest
Sharif is a Research Officer in the Materials Chemistry Laboratory at the GC University, Lahore. He is doing a Ph.D. in Lanthanide Coordination Polymers under the supervision of Prof. Dr Islam Ullah Khan, studying their Magnetic, Luminescent and MOF behaviour. Sharif is visiting Chem. Cryst. for six months under an IRSIP (HEC) scholarship to learn … Read the rest
Andrew and his research group are close associates of Chem. Cryst.. We share group meetings and, although they have some very strange ideas about what constitutes a single crystal, they collect data in the lab.
For more information, see their webpage.… Read the rest
Keith Prout died quite suddenly in September 2007 after a short illness.
Although he had been officially retired for several years, he was continuing an active research program with Nick Rees combining X-ray and NMR studies. X-ray structure analysis gives information about disorder and thermal vibrations in crystals. When combined with solid state NMR … Read the rest