MERCURY
Mercury offers comprehensive facilities for visualising crystal structures in
three dimensions, including:
- full range of structure display styles, view directions, colours and structure
manipulations
- location and display of hydrogen bonding and other short contacts
- ability to build and visualise a network of contacts
- packing diagrams of single and multiple cell contents
- measurement and display of geometrical parameters
- display of centroids, least-squares mean planes and Miller planes
- ability to generate and display slices through a crystal in any direction
Additionally, Mercury offers;
- downloading of hit lists from ConQuest
- browsing of the entire CSD
or of in-house databases
- import of structures in other formats
- the ability to save displays
More information about Mercury can be found at the CCDC
site, and on-line
documentation is available.