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Twenty-Seventh Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography Join Twenty-Seventh Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography, August 10-18, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.

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Charge-enhanced pyri­dyl tri­fluoro­borate organocatalysts: crystal structures and reactivity An examination of the relationship between the solid-state features of the crystal structures of eleven 3- and 4-pyridyl tri­fluoro­borate organocatalysts and their solution-state reactivity is report...

Congratulations to Alex, @amlovstedt.bsky.social. His paper is on the cover!

Charge-enhanced pyri­dyl tri­fluoro­borate organocatalysts: crystal structures and reactivity doi.org/10.1107/S205...

A Crystalline Mono‐Coordinate Indium(I)‐Phosphaalkenyl The redox neutral carbometallation of a phospha-alkyne using the dimeric indium(I) compound (InTer)2 is reported. This reaction affords a mono-coordinate indium(I) compound that can reversibly extrud...

Congratulations to Álvaro and the J. Goicoechea group at #IUBChemistry!
A Crystalline Mono‐Coordinate Indium(I)‐Phosphaalkenyl - García‐Romero - Angewandte Chemie International Edition - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Dr. Alex Lovstedt from umnchemistry.bsky.social joined the lab. Welcome Alex!

Promotional graphic with a publication figure of the overlay of unoptimised (white) and optimised (red) molecules for DATNBZ01 (left) and LEZJAB01 (right), showing the rotation of nitro groups and the loss of intramolecular hydrogen bonds, respectively, when the molecular geometry is optimised.

Just published in Structural Chemistry, CCDC scientists have benchmarked general-purpose force fields that have been recently implemented in CCDC software suites.

🔗 ccdc-info.com/4aXuvBW

#Chemistry #Crystallography

We’re honouring the late George Sheldrick, whose SHELX suite revolutionized crystal structure determination.

His earliest structure in the CSD: a mercury-cobalt carbonyl complex (1968).

🔗 CSD Entry FUYNAO: ccdc-info.com/4hXHcNQ

#FeaturedStructureFriday #Crystallography #CompChemSky

Farewell Nobu. Wishing you all the success in your new position at OU.

Statewide IT Conference 2024 @IUBloomington.

ACS @AmerChemSociety National Historic Chemical Landmarks dedication today at @IUBChemistry, @IUBloomington, recognizing the development of stannous fluoride chemistry, which resulted in the creation and commercialization of @crest toothpaste by @IndianaUniv and @ProcterGamble.

Bravo DECTRIS

Column: Indiana's SB202 threatens our ability to compete in technology driven fields via @theheraldtimes

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Sneha performing Sir Lawrence Bragg's demo of crystallization (Crystals And Gems - The Nature of Things; ). The Chemistry's MIS team built our crystal builder.

Ibtihag is presenting her poster at the STEM Summer Research Experience Program
@IU_Groups
conference.

STEM Summer Research Experience Program @IU_Groups student Ibtihag is investigating host guest systems in our lab.

Anthony has taken a new position and left us today. We hope that his new responsibilities will be fulfilling and make good use of his many talents. We miss him already. Good luck Anthony!

Congratulations to Jackie Drake, Anthony Parker, and Ashley Mills, winners of the Outstanding Chemistry Staff Award 2023.

Remembering Professor Dennis Peters.

Awardees of the IUPAC 2023 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering

It was nice to catch up with Kriss Leftwich from @XenocsNews, who visited our laboratory this week.

Snowflake Bentley’s 19th-century images of snow crystals put online

Dr. Jenny Glusker giving the inaugural Dr. Penelope W. Codding Lecture in support of early career crystallographers, hosted by the Canadian National Crystallographic Committee.

The last days for our alum snowman to put on some pounds (or grams) before travelling to Buffalo for the @USCrystalComp. #2022USCGC #stem #crystallography

C427 students studying Cu/Au nanoparticles with PXRD.

Crystal pencil.