CLOSURE OF THE COURSE “A JOURNEY THROUGH X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY”
The classes of the course “A Journey through X-Ray Crystallography” were concluded this Friday morning, February 14th. The theoretical 15-hour course was taught by Professor Paola Paoli, from the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Florence, who is visiting UFPR under the Internationalization Program (PrInt), managed by UFPR and funded by CAPES. The visit of Prof. Paola Paoli is linked to the Advanced Materials area of PrInt / UFPR.
The discipline counted on the participation of students from the undergraduate course in Chemistry, from the master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral courses at PPGQ and the doctorate in Biochemistry, all from UFPR, in addition to the master’s students in Chemistry from UTFPR. It was a very pleasant and productive week.
We are very grateful to Prof. Paoli for sharing with us her great experience in Chemical Crystallography.
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A NEW LECTURE COURSE ENTITLED “A JOURNEY THROUGH X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY” DELIVERED BY PROF. PAOLA PAOLI
We are glad to announce the lecture course “A JOURNEY THROUGH X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY”, by Prof. Paola Paoli, from the Department of Structural Engineering of the University of Florence.
The course will be delivered in English over five half-day sessions of three hours each, through lectures and selected exercises.
Course Title: A JOURNEY THROUGH X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (Special Topics in Chemistry IV – QUIM7048)
Level: Master and Doctorate
Credits: 01 (15 hours)
Enrollment period:
– February 03 to 07, through SIGA/UFPR, for regular PPGQ students.
– February 06 and 07, through SIGA/UFPR, for external students (*).
(*) Students from other MSc or PhD Programs or external to UFPR are required to complete the individual registration form (Isolated Course) available on the “Forms” tab of the PPGQ web page (http://www.prppg.ufpr.br/ppgquimica/formularios-e-documentos/).
Lectures: February 10 to 14, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
Location: Seminar Room, Mathematics Department – Exact Sciences Building (PA block), third floor – Polytechnic Center, UFPR.
The number of available places is 15.
COURSE CONTENT: “A JOURNEY THROUGH X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY”
- Introduction: X-ray crystallography & Nobel Prizes
- X-rays: generation and properties
- Solids and crystalline solids
- Symmetry in the solid-state and related concepts (symmetry elements, symmetry operations, lattices, unit cells, crystal systems, space groups)
- X-ray diffraction ( diffraction patterns, Bragg’s law, Ewald’s sphere)
- Data collection (procedures and strategies) and data processing
- Structure solution (the phase problem) and refinement
- Analysis, comparison (Cambridge Structural Database) and presentation of the results
- Crystallographic software
- Worked examples.
Main references:
CLEGG, W. (Ed.) Crystal Structure Analysis, Principle and Practice. Oxford: Oxford Science Publications, 2009.
HAMMOND, C. The basics of crystallography and diffraction. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, International Union of Crystallography, 2015.
MARC DE GRAE, M.; MCHENRY, M. E. Structure of materials: an introduction to crystallography, diffraction and symmetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Addition learning support: a list of “educational resources” (web sites, documents, and papers) is provided at the end of each lesson for those who desire to engage in an in-depth study of the topics covered.
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