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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe _Science_ 340, 1434–1437 (2013) Products of chemical reactions involving organic compounds are typically characterized by analysing bulk
samples with techniques such as NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and — if you are lucky enough to get good-quality crystals — X-ray crystallography. Advances in scanning probe
microscopies have, however, reached a point where it is possible to image single molecules resting on a surface and, in some cases, can reveal the precise bonding arrangement of the
constituent atoms. Although it would be impractical to determine the structure of every single product molecule from a given reaction in this way, direct imaging can potentially provide
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permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Cantrill, S. Structural snapshots. _Nature Chem_ 5, 640 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1723 Download citation * Published: 23 July
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