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Following Reactions with X-ray Crystallography
Technology captures transient intermediates
The Scientist 2004, 18(24):32
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X-ray crystallography typically is used to capture static images of molecular structure. But Philip Coppens of the University of Buffalo and colleagues recently employed a variation called time-resolved X-ray crystallography to study contraction of the metal-metal bond lengths in a complex ion containing two rhodium atoms.[1]
These changes occur on the microsecond time scale and represent highly reactive, transient excited states that are impossible to capture using standard crystallographic techniques.
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