Date posted | Title | Structure | Author |
29/12 | 54 nets and nothing fishy | 54-Fold interpenetrated coordination polymer | Stuart Batten |
05/10 | All of the symmetry – <em>P</em>4<sub>2</sub><em>cm</em>: [(CH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>4</sub>N][Cu<sub>2</sub>(NCS)<sub>3</sub>] | [(CH3)4N][Cu2(NCS)3] | Helen Maynard-Casely |
27/08 | Light reactions | [Ni(dppe)(η1-ONO)Cl] | Mark Warren |
16/03 | Making a drug work smarter – Acemetacin co-crystals | Acemetacin co-crystals | Helen Maynard-Casely |
12/06 | Vinegar – acetic acid | Acetic acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
04/03 | Rigidity in carbon and hydrogen – Adamantane | Adamantane | Jack Binns |
09/08 | Feeding the world – Ammonia | Ammonia | Helen Maynard-Casely |
18/05 | This is rocket science – ammonium perchlorate | Ammonium perchlorate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
07/02 | A headache of a crystal structure – Aspirin | Aspirin | Helen Maynard-Casely |
29/06 | A ring of progress – Benzene | Benzene | Helen Maynard-Casely |
08/10 | Dedication in the face of adversity – Cadmium Cyanide | Cadmium cyanide | Stuart Batten |
02/09 | Cadmium tricyanomethanide tetramethoxyborate (try saying that three times!) | Cadmium tricyanomethanide tetramethoxyborate | Stuart Batten |
01/09 | Cheap, Safe and Legal: Caffeine, The Socially Acceptable Psychoactive Drug | Caffeine | Jack Clegg |
16/06 | Some Like It Hot – Capsaicin | Capsaicin | David Turner |
12/03 | Colour me beautiful – Carotenoids | Carotenoids | John Helliwell |
22/07 | An aromatic mineral – Carpathite | Carpathite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
11/01 | Tales from a PhD – Synthesising a catenane | Catenane | Jason Price |
10/09 | Cellulose – the inner strength of plants | Cellulose | Lynne Thomas |
06/08 | The Chinese puzzle molecule | Chinese puzzle molecule | Alison Edwards |
06/03 | The sour in the sweet – citric acid | Citric acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
17/03 | Happy St Patrick's day – something to help you with the snakes? | Clerodane diterpenoid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
21/08 | Five fold - Cobalt tricyanomethanide | Cobalt tricyanomethanide | Stuart Batten |
21/12 | Seasons greetings. The crystal structure of Cocoa Butter | Cocoa butter (phase V) | Helen Maynard-Casely |
14/06 | The chocolate you don’t want – cocoa butter form VI | Cocoa butter (phase VI) | Helen Maynard-Casely |
06/11 | Chosen for its looks – Congressane | Congressane | Renée Webster |
13/08 | Crystals by Design – Copper Tetracyanotetraphenylmethane Tetrafluoroborate | Copper tetracyanotetraphenylmethane tetrafluoroborate | Stuart Batten |
28/06 | An extra-terrestrial hydrocarbon – Ethane | Ethane | Helen Maynard-Casely |
08/01 | Happy New Year Hangover – Ethanol | Ethanol | David Turner |
15/06 | Molecular cotton candy – Ethyl Maltol | Ethyl maltol | Helen Maynard-Casely |
20/08 | Perfect for the cold and 'flu season: Eucalyptus Oil | Eucalyptol | Jack Clegg |
27/07 | Adapting a plant-based molecule – eugenyl acetate | Eugenyl acetate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
10/12 | An accidental molecule – ferrocene | Ferrocene | Helen Maynard-Casely |
03/08 | Sweet as – Glucose | Glucose | Helen Maynard-Casely |
03/05 | From crystallography, to running the country | Gramicidin S | Helen Maynard-Casely |
14/03 | Keggin your pardon, ma'm – the structure of a heteropoly acid | Heteropoly acid | Sam Duyker |
11/12 | An impossible molecule – Hexaferrocenylbenzene | Hexaferrocenylbenzene | Helen Maynard-Casely |
23/12 | Merry Christmas – Ho Ho Ho | Hexakis(μ2-8-quinolinolato-N,O,O)-tris(8-quinolinolato-N,O)-tri-holmium(iii) 8-hydroxyquinoline solvate | David Turner |
02/08 | A bit of a mouthful – hexamethylenetetramine | Hexamethylenetetramine | Helen Maynard-Casely |
03/01 | The structure of empty space – HKUST 1 | HKUST-1 | Sam Duyker |
13/03 | It is sitting in your stomach – Hydrochloric acid | Hydrochloric acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
02/03 | Square snowflakes – the structure of Ice VI | Ice VI | Helen Maynard-Casely |
19/07 | Ice X – The extreme form of ice | Ice X | Helen Maynard-Casely |
15/12 | A correction to an earlier claim – Ice XVI is the newest form of ice! | Ice XVI | Helen Maynard-Casely |
25/03 | The crystal structure rainbow – Indigo in your batteries? | Indigo carmine | Helen Maynard-Casely |
13/01 | Impressive Insulin | Insulin | Julia Archbold |
25/09 | Iron trans-4,4'-azopyridine thiocyanate – Letting things down… | Iron trans-4,4'-azopyridine thiocyanate | Stuart Batten |
10/11 | Karrikinolide – where there's smoke, there's germination | Karrikinolide | Renée Webster |
18/11 | What was Philae looking for on 67P? L-Glutamic acid | L-Glutamic acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
28/09 | Chasing complex molecules in the stars – looking for L-Serine | L-Serine | Helen Maynard-Casely |
08/06 | Not for the intolerant – Lactose | Lactose monohydrate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
30/12 | Shrinking in the heat – lanthanoid hexacyanidocobaltates, a.k.a. LnCo(CN)6 | Lanthanoid hexacyanidocobaltates | Sam Duyker |
30/09 | Interdigitation, Interpenetration, Intercalation | Layered cuprous tricyanomethanide derivatives | Stuart Batten |
02/06 | Absorbing gas – Lithium isonicotinate.solvate | Lithium isonicotinate∙solvate | Keith White |
02/11 | The sour taste – Malic acid | Malic acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
12/02 | Not another ice structure… Methamphetamine | Methamphetamine | Sam Duyker |
19/08 | Hasta la Vista, Babies… | Methandrostenolone | Michael Pfrunder |
11/05 | Methane under pressure – the structure of Methane A | Methane A | Helen Maynard-Casely |
18/12 | Methane under pressure – the strange coincidence of methane B | Methane B | Helen Maynard-Casely |
18/01 | Fire ice – the structure of methane hydrate I | Methane hydrate I | Helen Maynard-Casely |
08/09 | A big water cage, sH clathrate hydrate | Methane Hydrate II (sH) | Helen Maynard-Casely |
31/07 | It Breathes but isn’t Alive – MIL-53, a Flexible Framework | MIL-53 | Sam Duyker |
29/07 | A diamond net of molecular tetrahedra | Molecular tetrahedra | Jessica Holmes |
03/10 | Enhancing flavour, molecule by molecule: MSG | Monosodium L-glutamate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
26/08 | Nanoballs - synthesis for the lazy | Nanoballs | Stuart Batten |
21/07 | Ring ring! Naphthalene calling | Naphthalene | Renée Webster |
29/08 | What’s in a name? The Octapi Catenane | Octapi catenane | Stuart Batten |
29/11 | Saturating your food – Palmitic acid | Palmitic acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
31/05 | An elusive polymorph of Paracetamol | Paracetamol | Helen Maynard-Casely |
06/06 | Penicillin – D-Day | Penicillin | Alison Edwards |
27/04 | A small molecule that has saved a lot of lives – phenol | Phenol | Helen Maynard-Casely |
10/02 | Less than mellow yellow – the structure of picric acid | Picric acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
05/12 | Pinene – It's beginning to smell a lot like Christmas! | Pinene | Jonathan McCree-Grey |
17/05 | A peppery crystal structure – Piperine | Piperine | Helen Maynard-Casely |
27/02 | Plastic fantastic – polyethylene | Polyethylene | Joseph Bevitt |
29/05 | Getting in a Twist – A Polyrotaxane | Polyrotaxane | David Turner |
15/03 | Something for the Weekend – Potassium Bitartrate | Potassium bitartrate | David Turner |
26/07 | A molecule from trees – Quinine | Quinine | Helen Maynard-Casely |
17/12 | Molecule of deceit – raspberry ketone | Raspberry ketone | Helen Maynard-Casely |
15/02 | Danger danger! A high-pressure explosive – γ RDX | RDX | Helen Maynard-Casely |
11/10 | Celebrating Laue – complex structures very quickly! | Rh2(PNP)2(PNP)2(BPh4)2 | Helen Maynard-Casely |
25/02 | This is a Hard One – Sildenafil Citrate | Sildenafil citrate | David Turner |
29/09 | Negative Compression! Silver(I) tricyanomethanide | Silver(I) tricyanomethanide | Jasper Adamson |
13/06 | Sodium acetate | Sodium acetate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
07/10 | All of the symmetry – <em>Pm</em>-3: Sr<sub>3</sub>C<sub>60</sub> | Sr3C60 | Helen Maynard-Casely |
17/07 | Time to scrub things up – Stearic acid | Stearic acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
12/01 | Sweet crystallography – the crystal structure of sucrose | Sucrose | Helen Maynard-Casely |
04/01 | A material for another world – Sulfuric Acid Hexahydrate | Sulfuric acid hexahydrate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
27/12 | Pasteurized Crystals – Tartaric acid | Tartaric acid | Anna Leung |
04/08 | Triglycine Sulphate: Ferroelectic, Pyroelectric, Bolometric | Triglycine sulphate | Darren Goossens |
16/10 | A Nobel Explosive – Trinitroglycerin | Trinitroglycerin | David Turner |
27/11 | Your crystallographic Thanksgiving – Tryptophan! | Tryptophan | Sara Callori |
26/03 | The crystal structure rainbow – Imperial violet | Tyrian purple | Helen Maynard-Casely |
12/12 | The MOFIA and the boss of the crown family: the UiO-66 | UiO-66 | Hubert Chevreau |
21/10 | When is a knot not a knot? When it's a Ravel! | Universal 3-Ravel | Jack Clegg |
24/01 | You must be taking the **** – Urea | Urea | David Turner |
28/04 | Don’t Panic – Valium / Diazepam | Valium | David Turner |
12/05 | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and the structure of Vitamin B12 | Vitamin B12 | Alison Edwards |
10/06 | Important for this time of year – Vitamin C | Vitamin C | Helen Maynard-Casely |
10/05 | J. D. Bernal and the structure of water | Water | Alison Edwards |
01/10 | Impossible chemistry: making the unreactive react | Xenon-water compound | Helen Maynard-Casely |
02/10 | A big family of MOFs – Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks | ZIF-8 | F. X. Coudert |
15/08 | The beauty within – Zinc cyanide | Zinc cyanide | F. X. Coudert |
09/06 | β-Carotene helps you see in the dark | β-Carotene | Jonathan McCree-Grey |