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EPSRC Reference: EP/C533526/1
Title: Single-crystal X-ray Diffraction for the Chemical Science
Principal Investigator: Cardin, Professor CJ
Other Investigators:
Colquhoun, Professor HM Drew, Professor M Chippindale, Professor A
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Department: Chemistry
Organisation: University of Reading
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 October 2005 Ends: 30 September 2010 Value (£): 356,871
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Chemical Biology Chemical Structure
Chemical Synthetic Methodology Co-ordination Chemistry
Drug Formulation & Delivery Materials Characterisation
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Chemicals Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology
Energy
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W e seek funding for a single crystal diffractometer with CCD detector to provide a major enhancement of our structure determination capability for small molecules. We seek to support a range of currently funded projects for which our existing 10 year old image plate equipment is inadequate, and also to develop new projects. The two broad areas which will benefit most within the School are in materials and in medicinal and biological chemistry. Within materials, there are specific funded research programmes in high performance polymers, metal cyanides, open framework metal phosphates and analogues, organometallic molecular wires, selective complexation of actinides and nuclear fission products. Within medicinal and biological chemistry, funded programmes include the development of bisintercalating antitumour agents, novel DNA structural motifs and carbohydrate chemistry. The new School of Pharmacy, for which staff recruitment has already started, is to be housed in an extension to the chemistry building, and is expected to generate new programmes in medicinal chemistry and drug delivery. The present proposal is an underpinning technology in all these areas. We request partial support for a PDRA to make the best use of the equipment, to which the University and the School will contribute a total of 50,000.
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