An x-ray crystal structure solved by Philip Coppens has been chosen as one of the world’s top 10 molecular structures ever solved. Coppens is a chemistry professor at the University at Buffalo (New York) and a founding member of ChemMatCARS, which operates an x-ray beamline for the University of Chicago at Sector 15 of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.
Thelistof 10 structures was compiled byChemical & Engineering News(C&E News), the science and technology magazine of the American Chemical Society, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of x-ray crystallography. The United Nations has designated 2014 as the International Year of Crystallography.
