crystals

Its always a good day when you have crystals on the diffractometer. These are dark orange needles. I was messing with the microscope we have in lab, trying to figure out a way to take a picture of the crystals, but all I can get at the moment is a blurry mess. The X-ray lab had such a camera, but I feel kind of silly asking to use it. For now, we'll have to settle for the diffraction slice. As you can see its not as good as the last one I put up, but that doesn't mean I'm any less optimistic about it.

X-ray quality crystals were grown from slow evaporation of a concentrated THF solution.