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Development and Implementation of a Small Crystal, Small Molecule Beamline at the Advanced Light Source. Allen G. Oliver¹, Frederick J. Hollander¹, Al Thompson², Richard Celestre², Simon Clark², Howard Padmore², ¹College of Chemistry, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720, ²1 Cyclotron Rd, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720.

Beamline 11.3.1 at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is a dedicated Small Molecule beamline. The facility was conceived with the aims of building a beamline for a relatively low cost and enabling a wide variety of experiments to be performed on a single beamline. The optics consist of an Si<111> monochromator and a torodial focusing mirror. The data are collected by a large area CCD detector coupled with a D8 goiniometer. Experiments the beamline is able to be configured for are: single crystal analyses on small sample sizes (~ 50 microns or less), high pressure studies (Diamond Anvil Cell; DAC), charge density studies and powder diffraction. Herein we report the progress and pitfalls of the development of Beamline 11.3.1 and present the results of several small-crystal data sets collected at the beamline.