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Wiley Open Access, Advanced Science, 23(11), 2024

DOI: 10.1002/advs.202400081

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Compositional Analysis of Complex Mixtures using Automatic MicroED Data Collection

Journal article published in 2024 by Johan Unge ORCID, Jieye Lin ORCID, Sara J. Weaver ORCID, Ampon Sae Her ORCID, Tamir Gonen ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

AbstractQuantitative analysis of complex mixtures, including compounds having similar chemical properties, is demonstrated using an automatic and high throughput approach to microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED). Compositional analysis of organic and inorganic compounds can be accurately executed without the need of diffraction standards. Additionally, with sufficient statistics, small amounts of compounds in mixtures can be reliably detected. These compounds can be distinguished by their crystal structure properties prior to structure solution. In addition, if the crystals are of good quality, the crystal structures can be generated on the fly, providing a complete analysis of the sample. MicroED is an effective method for analyzing the structural properties of sub‐micron crystals, which are frequently found in small‐molecule powders. By developing and using an automatic and high throughput approach to MicroED, and with the use of SerialEM for data collection, data from thousands of crystals allow sufficient statistics to detect even small amounts of compounds reliably.