The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) has announced that the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) has passed the milestone of 800,000 expert-curated experimental crystal structures with the addition of a novel metal-organic paddle-wheel structure from researchers in Spain.
The CSD is the world's only comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge base of crystal structure data. It is an essential resource used every day by scientists worldwide for drug discovery, materials science, formulations studies, and structural chemistry research and education.
The CSD's 800,000th entry is a metal organic copper structure, published by Khaled Hassanein, Oscar Castillo, Carlos J. Gómez-García, Félix Zamora and Pilar Amo-Ochoa in Crystal Growth and Design. Knowledge of this structure, coupled with the wealth of structures in the CSD, will inform the design of new materials, and will be used to predict new crystal structures and validate X-ray data.
The CSD's 800,000th structure can easily be viewed online at
http://dx.doi.org/10.5517/cc1jj92f.
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