Getting Crystals Your Crystallographer Will Treasure Richard J. Staples 04/28/2020 1 X-Ray Crystallography Laboratory Department of Chemistry Michigan State University Getting Crystals Your Crystallographer Will Treasure Richard J. Staples Table of Contents • What is Crystal Structure and why do we want one? • What do we need to bring to the Laboratory? • Where to start ✓ Properties of compound ✓ How much material and solvents? ✓ What do we grow the crystals in? ✓ Other concerns • Crystal Growth • Crystallization Methods • Crystal Selection and evaluation • General Crystal Mounting ✓ Loop, • Mounting Crystals at Michigan State University • Limitations of Crystallography • Table of typical solvents used for organic crystal growth. • Table of Vapor Pressures for common solvents. • Literature to crystal growing