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Chemistry Forums for Students => Inorganic Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: l_johan_k on September 09, 2009, 08:43:07 AM

Title: Crystallographic Information Files
Post by: l_johan_k on September 09, 2009, 08:43:07 AM

Can you download Crystallographic Information Files from the net?

Title: Re: Crystallographic Information Files
Post by: cth on September 11, 2009, 12:38:48 PM

Yes, from the CCDC (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre). It isn't free, but most universities have a licence to access it.

Title: Re: Crystallographic Information Files
Post by: sjb on September 12, 2009, 05:30:14 AM

Failing that, many (recent) papers may have cifs in the electronic supplementary information for them, which you can also download, and then perhaps view with e.g. weblab viewer (I think, been a while since I've had to do this)

Title: Re: Crystallographic Information Files
Post by: AWK on September 14, 2009, 03:55:05 AM

Acta crystallographica E is a public domain journal now that contains  cif files free.

Title: Re: Crystallographic Information Files
Post by: Rudi on September 16, 2009, 10:08:35 AM

Quote from: cth on September 11, 2009, 12:38:48 PM

Yes, from the CCDC (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre). It isn't free, but most universities have a licence to access it.

Requesting a deposited cif file from the CCDC is for free:

http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/products/csd/request/

The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is not for free.