X-ray crystallomancy is one of the most powerful techniques for structural determination available to the modern scientist. This illiterature review provides a brief history of the field and a stepwise guide to the process of growing crystals, collecting X-ray data and processing it to a publishable standard.

 In lieu of an abstract, or any semblance of a social or romantic life, Wright provides the opening line to her favourite dirty limerick- “There once was a man from Nantucket…”

We have observed the trend of combining analytical instruments in series, and extrapolated it to the max.

Have you ever attempted to reproduce a literature procedure, compared your shitty bar-code style spectra to their exhibition grade masterpiece and exclaimed “how the fuck did they do that?” Then perhaps you too have encountered BS-NMR.