I recently attended the 30th annual Spring meeting of the British Crystallographic Association at the University of Warwick from 16th-19th April 2012. The program was chaired by Kirsten Christensen (University of Oxford), and included a broad range of lectures from all areas of crystallography. The Young Crystallographers Group satellite opened the meeting. This is an excellent [...]
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A few weeks ago, I attended the 6th annual meeting of the “Control and Prediction of the Organic Solid State” (CPOSS) project in the Old Refectory of University College London. The meeting was themed ‘Crystals or not – where do we go from here?’. There were over 100 delegates in attendance, with both academic and [...]
Professor Sally Price works at University College London in the UK. Her group focuses on developing the accurate modelling of intermolecular and intramolecular forces, in order to predict which crystal structures of an organic molecule are thermodynamically feasible. These are contrasted with experimental searches for polymorphs in order to understand the factors which lead to [...]
Carbaborane C-H groups are acidic and so are able to form hydrogen bonding interactions as donors. This can be exploited in the use of carbaboranes as coordinating anions that can be involved in agostic interactions with diverse metal centres. Agostic and electrostatic interactions for Ag···H-B are very rare. In this advance article, Luís Cunha-Silva and Michaele Hardie report the [...]
Professor Alessia Bacchi completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Parma. After completing a two year post doc in the European Molecular Biology Lab in Hamburg, she returned to the University of Parma in October 1998. Since October 2001, Alessia has been Associate Professor in the Faculty of Science, investigating the supramolecular organization [...]
The 2012 Gordon Research Conference on Crystal Engineering will be held in the Waterville Valley Resort, New Hampshire, USA from 10–15th June 2012. The conference is chaired by Robin D. Rogers alongside CrystEngComm Associate Editor, Christer Aakeröy and Mike Zaworotko who are vice chairing). Sessions will include Nucleation, Crystal Growth, and Solid State Reactivity; Polymorphism and Crystal Structure Prediction; [...]
The 27th meeting of the European Crystallographic Association (ECM27) will take place in Bergen, Norway from 6–11th August 2012. The program committee have organised a rich scientific program of microsymposia and keynote lectures, with invited talks by CrystEngComm Editorial Board member Mark Spackman (University of Western Australia), Neil Champness (University of Nottingham, UK), Paola Gilli (University of [...]
The 2012 meeting for the Control and Prediction of the Organic Solid State Project will take place on Tuesday 3rd April 2012 at University College London from 9am – 4pm. The meeting theme is “Crystal or not –where do we go from here?”, and features a variety of speakers including Alastair Florence, ChemComm Editorial Board member [...]
Interest in Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) has escalated in recent years due to potential applications in gas storage, catalysis and ion-exchange. The growing demand for these multifunctional materials imposes expectations of certain properties, which are often met by variations in construction and choice of linking ligands. This Advance Article by Francisco Javier Martínez Casado and colleagues from [...]
2D and 3D coordination networks with fullerene guests are promising candidates for superconducting materials, with potential applications in gas and information storage. Edwin Constable and colleagues at the University of Basel, Switzerland have reported the intercalation of a fullerene molecule into a network containing octahedral nickel nodes. Using a layering technique, crystals of 1,2-dichlorobenzene and fullerene [...]