XFEL Microcrystallography of Self-Assembling Silver <i>n</i>-Alkanethiolates.

ABSTRACT: New synthetic hybrid materials and their increasing complexity have placed growing demands on crystal growth for single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Unfortunately, not all chemical systems are conducive to the isolation of single crystals for traditional characterization. Here, small-molecule serial femtosecond crystallography (smSFX) at atomic resolution (0.833 Å) is employed to characterize microcrystalline silver n-alkanethiolates with various alkyl chain lengths at X-ray free electron laser facilities, resolving long-standing controversies regarding the atomic connectivity and odd-even effects of layer stacking. smSFX provides high-quality crystal structures directly from the powder of the true unknowns, a capability that is particularly useful for systems having notoriou

SUBMITTER: Aleksich M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11818436 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature