We had crystallized an organic compound, collected its SCXRD data at some other place since we do not have in-house data collection facility and solved the crystal structure. The data files that we received after data collection shows that spherical absorption collection was applied to the data. Is it possible that a rectangular crystal can have spherical absorption correction or is there something that we are missing ?
What diffractometer and software was used? I have seen some software that indicates spherical absorption even though a more appropriate face-based correction was used. If there is no problem with you sharing the .cif file for the structure, I can double-check it for you. Otherwise, if spherical correction was indeed used, it is better than nothing in most cases, but this depends on the elements in the structure. What is your heaviest element? If it a first-row metal, not much of a problem. If it is a third row metal, it could be a problem.
Sir, the diffractometer and software used are Bruker APEX-II CCD and Bruker APEX II respectively. The heaviest element in our structure is Chlorine.
Basically, if the largest atom is chlorine, absorption correction is really not that important. Again, if you are free to share the .cif file, I can examine it for you to give you a better idea.
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