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Schriber EA, Paley DW, Bolotovsky R, Rosenberg DJ, Sierra RG, Aquila A, Mendez D, Poitevin F, Blaschke JP, Bhowmick A, Kelly RP, Hunter M, Hayes B, Popple DC, Yeung M, Pareja-Rivera C, Lisova S, Tono K, Sugahara M, Owada S, Kuykendall T, Yao K, Schuck PJ, Solis-Ibarra D, Sauter NK, Brewster AS, Hohman JN. Chemical crystallography by serial femtosecond X-ray diffraction. Nature 2022; 601:360-365. [PMID: 35046599 PMCID: PMC8770144 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04218-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2021] [Accepted: 11/07/2021] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Abstract
Inorganic-organic hybrid materials represent a large share of newly reported structures, owing to their simple synthetic routes and customizable properties1. This proliferation has led to a characterization bottleneck: many hybrid materials are obligate microcrystals with low symmetry and severe radiation sensitivity, interfering with the standard techniques of single-crystal X-ray diffraction2,3 and electron microdiffraction4-11. Here we demonstrate small-molecule serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography (smSFX) for the determination of material crystal structures from microcrystals. We subjected microcrystalline suspensions to X-ray free-electron laser radiation12,13 and obtained thousands of randomly oriented diffraction patterns. We determined unit cells by aggregating spot-finding results into high-resolution powder diffractograms. After indexing the sparse serial patterns by a graph theory approach14, the resulting datasets can be solved and refined using standard tools for single-crystal diffraction data15-17. We describe the ab initio structure solutions of mithrene (AgSePh)18-20, thiorene (AgSPh) and tethrene (AgTePh), of which the latter two were previously unknown structures. In thiorene, we identify a geometric change in the silver-silver bonding network that is linked to its divergent optoelectronic properties20. We demonstrate that smSFX can be applied as a general technique for structure determination of beam-sensitive microcrystalline materials at near-ambient temperature and pressure.
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Affiliation(s)
- Elyse A Schriber
- Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
| | - Robert Bolotovsky
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
| | - Daniel J Rosenberg
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Graduate Group in Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
| | - Raymond G Sierra
- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
| | - Andrew Aquila
- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
| | - Derek Mendez
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
| | - Frédéric Poitevin
- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
| | - Johannes P Blaschke
- National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
| | - Asmit Bhowmick
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
| | - Ryan P Kelly
- Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
| | - Mark Hunter
- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
| | - Brandon Hayes
- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
| | - Derek C Popple
- National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
- College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
| | - Matthew Yeung
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
| | - Carina Pareja-Rivera
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán, Mexico
| | - Stella Lisova
- Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
| | - Kensuke Tono
- SPring-8, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Sayo, Japan
| | | | - Shigeki Owada
- SPring-8, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Sayo, Japan
| | - Tevye Kuykendall
- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
| | - Kaiyuan Yao
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
| | - P James Schuck
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
| | - Diego Solis-Ibarra
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán, Mexico
| | - Nicholas K Sauter
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
| | - Aaron S Brewster
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
| | - J Nathan Hohman
- Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
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