Dear Crystallographers, I would like to soak my crystals in bicarbonate (a possible substrate), but the crystals have grown--and only grow--in pH 5.2-6.0, so the bicarb/CO2 will just keep evolving out of the solution and reliquishing its hydroxyls until the pH is elevated sufficiently out of range. Does anyone have a clever way of getting bicarb into these crystals? Grow them under CO2? Transfer them to higher pH, and hope for the best?
Jacob Keller
