• Use IR and NMR to characterize your compound.

• Check in Cambridge Structural Database to make sure your structure has never been reported.

• Read the following instruction for crystal growing and consult your crystallographer for advice.  Usually crystals can be grown by slow evaporation method.

Growing Crystals That Will Make Your Crystallographer Happy

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• Fill in the REQUEST FORM and get your advisor's signature (PDF file)

• Give your crystallographer the vial or beaker with crystals in their mother liquor, never pour out the solvent

• When you get the data files from your crystallographer, you may view and plot with the following software:

    Weblab Viewer - Mercury
 

• Our results:
   

  	A New Method for the Synthesis of Imidazolidinone- and Benzimidazolone-Containing [2.2]Cyclophanes  Keisha K. Ellis, Burkhardt Wilke, Yuegang Zhang, and Steven T. Diver Org. Lett. (2000) 2, 3785