My crystals are up for XRD today! *Runs around in circles*
What if they don't diffract? What if they are too twinned to collect data on? What if they are existing compounds? Gahh!
(Also: nobody else is in the lab at the moment - noooooo where's everyone I need all the help I can get!)
Thursday, March 4, 2010
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OMG SO EXCITING!
You can still collect data if they're twinned, but solving the structure will be a BITCH. Hope your xtallographer is awesome.
Existing compounds, though...*sigh* Once I thought I had made something interesting. I got a purty-looking NMR and everything. (My NMR interp skills aren't at fault here--my boss thought it looked right too!) So I submitted some crystals for diffraction. They weren't fantastic--in fact I'm a little amazed they worked at all--but they did give solvable data. ...And they were something COMPLETELY different than what we wanted, AND a known compound. Fail!
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