Small molecule crystallography is a well established tool for structure determination and many laboratories are equipped with their own diffractometer.

However, even with the great advances in detector and laboratory source technologies, there are still many cases where it is simply not possible to obtain a structure using conventional crystallography for a variety of reasons. This is where the power of synchrotrons can come to the aid of the crystallographer. By harnessing the extremely intense, focused X-rays, we are able to do experiments involving:

• small and/or weakly diffracting crystals

• rapid collections on unstable samples

• samples under differing environmental conditions

• absolute structure and anomalous diffraction using the tuneable source

• excited state studies

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