International Union of Crystallography

Cambridge Structural Database reaches 500 000th crystal structure

[Lamotrigine (CSD reference code EFEMUX01)][Lamotrigine (CSD reference code EFEMUX01)]Crystal structure of lamotrigine (CSD reference code EFEMUX01).
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) has announced an important milestone - the archiving of the 500 000th small molecule crystal structure to the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD).

Dr Colin Groom, Executive Director of the CCDC says that 'the determination of 500 000 crystal structures is a remarkable achievement. However, the scientific community is hungry for the next 500 000 and the knowledge these will undoubtedly bring. As the CSD grows both in size and in the complexity of structures it contains, the database not only helps us to answer our questions about molecular structure and interactions, but tells us what those questions should be.'

The CSD’s 500 000th structure is the anti-convulsant drug Lamotrigine, published in Acta Crystallographica (2009), C65, o460-o464, by Balasubramanian Sridhar and Krishnan Ravikumar of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology in Hyderabad. The CSD reference code for the structure is EFEMUX01.

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