For the last fifty years, X-ray crystallography and allied methods have been one of the most important analytical techniques for chemical analysis. With improved equipment, computers, and programs, the time required for such determinations has been reduced from months to hours. However, crystallography has never found its way into chemical education. There are many reasons for this failure, but the result has been most chemists having little understanding of the method beyond operating equipment and running black box programs.This book provides a basic education on crystallographic methods. As.

• Cover
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• FOREWORD
• SINGLE CRYSTAL X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AS A METHOD OF CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
• SCATTERING AND DIFFRACTIONWHAT IS GOING ON WHEN RADIATION INTERACTS WITH A CRYSTAL
• CREATING CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DATA
• WORKING WITH AND VALIDATING CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DATA
• REAL AND RECIPROCAL SPACE
• S YMMETRY OPERAT IONS AND UNIT CELLS
• POINT GROUPS AND SPACE GROUPS
• S YMMETRY IN RECIPROCAL SPACE
• CHAPTER 9 X-RAYS AND DIFFRACTOMETERS
• FROM CRYSTALS TO DATA
• S OLVING THE STRUCTURE
• S TRUCTURE REFINEMENT
• DETERMINATION OF ABSOLUTE CONFIGURAT ION
• DISORDER AND TWINNING
• OTHER DIFFRACTION METHODS
• ADDIT IONAL USEFUL BOOKS
• REFERENCES
• INDEX