Mercury

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Mercury offers a comprehensive range of tools for 3D structure visualization.

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Mercury offers a comprehensive range of tools for 3D structure visualization and the exploration of crystal packing.

Mercury is able to load structural data from a variety of formats and provides an extensive array of options to aid the investigation and analysis of crystal structures. Generate packing diagrams of any number of unit cells in any direction, define and visualise least-squares and Miller planes, and take a slice through a crystal in any direction.

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Developer:
CCDC
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License type:
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akhilesh kumar 3 years ago

Very helpful software for study.

Ayesha Asghar 4 years ago

I found mercury really a helpful tool to assist me in all problems related to crystallographic structures.

SM 8 years ago

A superb program for chemical crystal structures. To use Mercury you need a CIF or MOL file containing the measured crystal stucture of a certain chemical solid. There are no universal CIF/MOL collections freely available, but for a start try finding TGZ-zipped teaching_subset_cifs.tgz file from the CCDC web site. (= the author of this program) Even better if you get real ORTEP structure cifs from the web sites of real chemistry journals.

Al French 4 months ago

SM, Mercury will read other file formats, including .pdb, .mol2, and .xyz

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