Alain Beauparlant (East Tennessee State University)

Determining the Structure of Sucrose Using Single Crystal X-Ray Crystallography

This video teaches students how to run a single crystal X-ray crystallography experiment using table sugar.  The video guides students in selecting a suitable crystal, mounting it on a fiber, centering it inside the diffractometer, running the experiment, reducing the data, solving the structure and preparing an ORTEP.  The video may be used either as a stand-alone background material for a virtual lab, or as preparation for a live experiment.