X-ray Crystallographic Facility

Raj K. Chadha, Ph.D., Director
Stein Research Building, Room 28
e-mail: rkchadha@scripps.edu
Phone: 858-784-7572
Fax: 858-784-7564

The Chemistry department of the Institute has an X-ray Facility which maintains two X-ray diffractometers, Bruker-APEX CCD Diffractometer equipped with a molybdenum tube, and Rigaku AFC6S with a copper tube. The X-ray data can be collected at room temperature as well as low temperature. The students can submit crystals of small organic or inorganic molecules for X-ray Structure determination. Outsiders can also get structure determination done here. Since this is a TSRI recharge facility, the outsiders have to pay a surcharge.

This facility also has a Perkin-Elmer CHNS analyzer for elemental analysis. We therefore do CHNS elemental analysis on organic compounds.