Chemical Crystallography Laboratory
9 Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3PD
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0) 1865 272600
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 272699

Welcome to the Chemical Crystallography Laboratory, Oxford University.

The Chemical Crystallography Laboratory is located in the white house with white shutters just by the junction of Parks Road and South Parks Road. Inside this attractive Georgian style listed building we have state of the art crystallographic diffraction equipment, laboratory space for sample preparation, and adequate office space for computational work.

The Prout/Watkin group currently consists of 3 D.Phils, 5 Part IIs, and 2 academic visitors. Members of other groups are encouraged to do their own structural analyses, and space and computers are available for them in the laboratory

The Chemical Crystallography Laboratory has a long history of involvement in software development. Our software is used world wide and has been presented and demonstrated at many meetings and workshops. The long-term aims of the work are to encode chemical and crystallographic knowledge into an autonomous program for routine use by chemists, and to provide novel software tools for professional crystallographers. A computer program should be regarded just like any other laboratory apparatus. It may be a quick solution to a one-off problem, or it may be more carefully designed so as to have a long and useful life. The role of Part II students has been to write pilot programs to help evaluate ideas. Those ideas shown to be sound and useful are then incorporated into the distributed programs by D.Phils, Post Docs or permanant members of the laboratory.