TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alain M. Beauparlant et al...
TI  -  Teaching Single Crystal X-ray Crystallography in the Undergraduate Classroom with Sugar and Epsom Salt: (Journal Article) 
T2  - American Chemical Society, Volume 100, Issue 1
SN  - 0021-9584
U1  - 540.7 
PY  - 0000///,January 102023///
CY  - Washington, United States
PB  - :American Chemical Society
KW  - First-Year Undergraduate/General
KW  - Second-Year Undergraduate
KW  -  Upper-Division Undergraduate
KW  -  Laboratory Instruction Hands-On Learning/Manipulatives
KW  - Crystals/Crystallography Laboratory
KW  - Equipment/Apparatus
KW  - Inquiry-Based/Discovery
KW  - Learning Problem Solving/Decision
KW  -   Making X-ray Crystallography
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N2  - Abstract-

 We developed a single crystal X-ray crystallography experiment based on the crystal structure of sucrose (table sugar), and a more challenging experiment using Epsom salt. Both crystals are readily available in X-ray quality crystalline form. In these experiments, students mounted a crystal on a MiTeGen loop and analyzed it using a Rigaku XtaLAB Mini diffractometer (built 2011). Students generated models of both compounds using CrysAlisPro, Olex2, SHELXT, and SHELXL. All aspects of this experiment use free software programs which have user-friendly interfaces. A step-by-step laboratory protocol for determining the structure of both compounds is included in the Supporting Information. These experiments were used in the Fall of 2019 at the Junior and the Senior level. In the Summer of 2020, a take-home version of the lab was created in response to the Novel 2019 Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and implemented in the General Chemistry laboratory curriculum; this experiment was used for the duration of the 2020–2021 academic year. These experiments are suitable for all undergraduate experience levels.








































UR  -  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00795
ER  -