I find this interesting as well, mainly because I have never seen this myself and I have looked at plenty of badly diffracting crystals. In my hands, synchrotron data at most end up being ~1.5 angstrom better in terms of resolution than the same crystals on our home source. I'm wondering if this phenomenon is real, or whether it is just a matter of people screening more/better crystals at the synchrotron compared to at home? Or a lousy home source?
Bert On 9/28/10 1:27 PM, "Francis E Reyes" <francis.re...@colorado.edu> wrote: Hi all I'm interested in the scenario where crystals were screened at home and gave lousy (say < 8-10A) but when illuminated with synchrotron radiation gave reasonable diffraction ( > 3A) ? Why the discrepancy? Thanks F --------------------------------------------- Francis E. Reyes M.Sc. 215 UCB University of Colorado at Boulder gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 67BA8D5D 8AE2 F2F4 90F7 9640 28BC 686F 78FD 6669 67BA 8D5D
