Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Slide 1 SDPDRR-II (Structure Determination by Powder Diffractometry Round Robin - 2 ) WWW: Started: Monday 9th September Part 1 (powder indexing): Start: Monday 9th September Finish: Sunday 13th October 8 samples : Powder indexing and structure solution : Powder Indexing only > 100 downloads of the data (samples 1 to 3)
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Slide 2 SDPDRR-II - Indexing Results WWW: 6 returns/100 downloads = 6% return rate
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Slide 3 SDPDRR-II - Sample 1 WWW: Organisers: Reduced cell: P1: P2: P3: Reduced cell: P4:No solution P5: P6:
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Slide 4 SDPDRR-II - Sample 2 WWW: Organisers: Reduced cell: P1: P2: P3: P4: P5: P6:
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Slide 5 SDPDRR-II - Sample 3 WWW: Organisers: (vol 6734Å 3 ) P1: (Tet Å 3 ) P2: P3: (Tet Å 3 ) P4:No Solution P5: P6:
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Slide 6 SDPDRR-II - Sample 3 Tetragonal or Cubic? 2 participants (1 and 3) obtained the same tetragonal cell instead of the correct cubic. Possibly due to default volume restrictions in the programs used(?) What happens if you run LePage (via Chekcell) followed by a “parsimony of extra reflections” check on the tetragonal solution
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Slide 7 SDPDRR-II - Sample 3: Tetragonal: 1 peak unmatched - 46 hkl’s (P42MC et al) to match 25 reflections
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Slide 8 SDPDRR-II - Sample 3: Tetragonal: Running LePage shows a cubic cell (18.885Å)
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Slide 9 SDPDRR-II - Sample 3: Visual inspection of cubic cell implies “bad”peak could still be an impurity
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Slide 10 SDPDRR-II - Sample 3: Cubic: 37 hkl’s to match 25 reflections (I23 et al) (vs 46 hkl’s in tetragonal)
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Slide 11 SDPDRR-II - Samples 4 to 8 WWW: Only one response - using the EFLECH/Index software of Joerg Bergmann ( ) S4:none suggested S5: S6:none suggested S7: S8: Summary: Powder indexing is not easy and not routine!