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Indiana University Molecular Structure Center
About IUMSC
The Indiana University Molecular Structure Center is a service and research facility in the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University, located in Bloomington, Indiana. The laboratory has a full complement of single crystal and powder diffraction equipment used to characterize crystalline materials using the techniques of X-ray crystallography. Researchers in the laboratory can determine the three-dimensional structure of nearly any material that can be crystallized.
The results of a crystallographic study is a set of atomic coordinates which locate the atoms of a molecule in the "unit cell" of the crystal. This information can then be used to generate images of the molecule and to determine distances and angles in the molecule. In addition, the data allows one to examine the packing of the molecules in the crystal, information which can often lead to understanding the properties of the material.
IUMSC Server allows rapid access to the data that are generated in the IUMSC. Nearly all of the materials studied have been synthesized or isolated by researchers from other laboratories, usually within the Indiana University system, but often from laboratories throughout the world. This server supports these researchers to access to the data as soon as the study is complete. Note that while most of the structures in the database are available to all interested, many of the recent structures will be password protected until the data are published in the appropriate scientific journal.
The IUMSC is the home site for the Reciprocal Net, a collection project for the National Science Digital Library.
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Indiana University Molecular Structure Center. Chemistry, A421, Indiana University, 800 E, Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405-7102, 812.855.6742
Last updated: 13 October, 2006 | Comments: iumsc@indiana.edu | Copyright 2005, The Trustees of Indiana University, Copyright Complaints