And here some more small molecule crystallization links.
http://xray.chem.ufl.edu/growing%20tips.htm
http://mic.ucla.edu/x-ray%20diffraction/tutorials_crystalgrowing.htm
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~pczajb2/growcrys.htm
Jose Antonio Cuesta-Seijo
On Jul 18, 2007, at 5:56 PM, Green, Todd wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am asking this question for a colleague(a chemist not a
> crystallographer) who would like to crystallize a small molecule
> (for clarification this is just the small molecule not a protein
> complex). The compound is quite hydrophobic and is rather "greasy."
> He has a free alcohol which could be a site of modification if this
> would help. I have only worked with proteins and was hoping that
> someone might be knowledgible and could point me in the direction
> of some help(literature, websites, etc) that might aide as a ground
> level tutorial on crystallization of small molecules, and if
> possible more specifically crystallization of hydrophobic/"greasy"
> small molecules.
>
> Thanks in advance-
> Todd Green
> University of Alabama at Birmingham
>
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