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Area of Science:

  • Crystallography
  • Materials Science
  • Chemical Physics

Background:

  • Multi-grain crystallography traditionally requires synchrotron sources.
  • Laboratory single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) enables rapid in situ crystal growth and analysis.
  • Advancements allow preliminary datasets to be analyzed and solved in minutes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate the applicability of laboratory multi-grain crystallography with laboratory X-ray diffraction.
  • To showcase rapid co-crystal structure determination for liquids at room temperature.

Main Methods:

  • Rapid in situ co-crystal growth of hexafluorobenzene and pyrrole by cooling a liquid mixture in an X-ray capillary.
  • Utilizing specialized software to identify a single unit cell from a fraction of diffraction spots.
  • Collecting a small dataset for rapid crystal structure solution to approximately 1 Å resolution.

Main Results:

  • Successfully determined the co-crystal structure of hexafluorobenzene and pyrrole, revealing a 3:4 crystallization ratio.
  • Demonstrated the method's generality by solving the 1:1 co-crystal structure of hexafluorobenzene and pyridine.
  • The software identified unit cells from as few as 10% of diffraction spots.

Conclusions:

  • Laboratory multi-grain crystallography provides a rapid and efficient method for crystal structure determination.
  • This technique is particularly valuable for studying samples that are liquid at room temperature.
  • The approach offers a viable alternative to synchrotron-based methods for certain crystallographic studies.