New Trends in Crystals at Saudi Arabia

Dear Colleagues,

One of the most important approaches for 3D chemical structure elucidation of micro/macromolecules remains single crystal X-ray crystallography. This non-destructive analytical technique can provide accurate data related to the exact chemical feature of the internal crystal lattice of solid crystalline compounds, that also afford unit cell dimensions, bond angles and bond length, atoms ordering, etc. In this virtual conference, I will present some examples and outline how single-crystal XRD has helped us to confirm molecular structures for biologically active compounds.

We invite researchers to contribute to the Special Issue on New Trends in Crystals at Saudi Arabia, which is intended to serve as a unique multidisciplinary forum covering broad aspects of science, technology and the application of single crystal X-ray crystallography for the synthetic and natural small molecules relevant to biological activities.

The potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Synthesis and single crystal X-ray crystallography.
• Supramolecular assembly of coordination polymers.
• Chemical insight of the molecular structure.
• Both experimental and theoretical/computational modelling.

Prof. Dr. Assem Barakat
Dr. Alexander S. Novikov
Guest Editors

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