Structure Determination by X-ray Crystallography

This book is an account of crystal symmetry and optical and e-ray diffraction techniques for examining single crystals. It includes the solution of crystal structures by the current methods, worked examples of crystal structure determination, problems and solutions for each chapter. There have been many advances in x-ray crystallography since the production of the third edition of this book, and the authors have endeavoured to introduce a number of them into this new edition. The overall plan of the book has been maintained because we believe that it has been well received in the academic community, but substantial revisions have been carried out and new material and chapters added. In particular, we have extended the discussion of the theory of x-ray diffraction and added new chapters on structure determination from powder data, on macromolecular crystallography, and on computational procedures in x-ray crystallography. We consider that x-ray crystallography is a universal tool for studying molecular structure, a view upheld by the pioneers in the subject, notably W.H. & W.L. Bragg, J. D. Bernal, Dorothy Hodgkin (n e Crowfoot), Kathleen Lonsdale (n e Yardley), and Linus Pauling, so that the broadening of the scope of the text in this way is fully justified. We have maintained the practice of devising problems to illustrate the work of each chapter, and have provided detailed, tutorial solutions. The appendices contain mostly mathematical procedures related to the material of the main text.

ladd (chemistry, University Of Surrey, Uk) And Palmer (crystallography, University Of London) Introduce Structure Determination By X-ray Crystallography In This Text For Advanced Students In Crystallography, Chemistry, And Chemical Physics. This Fourth Edition Adds New Chapters On Structure Determination From Powder Data, Macromolecular Crystallography, And Computational Procedures In X-ray Crystallography. The Cd-rom, New To This Edition, Contains Programs And Data Sets That Allow Readers To Participate In Aspects Of X-ray Crystallography Discussed In The Book. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, Or

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an Introduction To Structure Determination By X-ray Crystallography, Primarily For Final-year Undergraduate Studies In Crystallography, Chemistry, And Chemical Physics, And Introductory Postgraduate Work In This Area Of Crystallography. This Substantially Revised Edition (2nd, 1985) Adds A Chapter On Fourier Transforms, As Well As Further Studies On The Patterson Function And Anomalous Scattering, And A Short Account Of The Use Of Matrix Operations In Symmetry Theory. Annotation C. Book News, Inc., Portland, Or (booknews.com)

I was highly flattered when I was asked by Mark Ladd and Rex Palmer if I would write the Foreword to this Fourth Edition of their book. "Ladd & Palmer" is such a well-known and classic book on the subject of crystal structure determination, one of the standards in the field: I did feel daunted by the prospect, and wondered if I could do justice to it. The determination of crystal structures by X-ray crystallography has come a long way since the 1912 discoveries of von Laue and the Braggs. In the intervening years great advances have been made, so that today it is almost taken for granted that crystal structures can be determined in which hundreds, if not thousands, of sepa­ rate atomic positions can be found with apparent ease. In the early years the struc­ tures of relatively simple materials, such as the alkali halides, were often argued over and even disputed, whereas today we routinely see published structures of most complex molecular crystals, including the structures of viruses and proteins. I was highly flattered when I was asked by Mark Ladd and Rex Palmer if I would write the Foreword to this Fourth Edition of their book. "Ladd et Palmer" is such a well-known and classic book on the subject of crystal structure determination, one of the standards in the field: I did feel daunted by the prospect, and wondered if I could do justice to it. The determination of crystal structures by X-ray crystallography has come a long way since the 1912 discoveries of von Laue and the Braggs. In the intervening years great advances have been made, so that today it is almost taken for granted that crystal structures can be determined in which hundreds, if not thousands, of sepa­ rate atomic positions can be found with apparent ease. In the early years the struc­ tures of relatively simple materials, such as the alkali halides, were often argued over and even disputed, whereas today we routinely see published structures of most complex molecular crystals, including the structures of viruses and proteins I was highly flattered when I was asked by Mark Ladd and Rex Palmer if I would write the Foreword to this Fourth Edition of their book. "Ladd & Palmer" is such a well-known and classic book on the subject of crystal structure determination, one of the standards in the field: I did feel daunted by the prospect, and wondered if I could do justice to it. The determination of crystal structures by X-ray crystallography has come a long way since the 1912 discoveries of von Laue and the Braggs. In the intervening years great advances have been made, so that today it is almost taken for granted that crystal structures can be determined in which hundreds, if not thousands, of sepaƯ rate atomic positions can be found with apparent ease. In the early years the strucƯ tures of relatively simple materials, such as the alkali halides, were often argued over and even disputed, whereas today we routinely see published structures of most complex molecular crystals, including the structures of viruses and proteins Front Matter....Pages i-xlii Crystal Morphology and Crystal Symmetry....Pages 1-50 Lattices and Space-Group Theory....Pages 51-116 I X-rays, X-ray Diffraction, and Structure Factors....Pages 117-211 I Optical and X-ray Examination of Crystals....Pages 213-287 Fourier Series and Fourier Transforms....Pages 289-333 Fourier Techniques in X-ray Structure Determination....Pages 335-419 Direct Methods and Refinement....Pages 421-518 Examples of Crystal Structure Determination....Pages 519-565 X-ray Structure Determination with Powders....Pages 567-614 Proteins and Macromolecular X-ray Analysis....Pages 615-679 Computer-Aided Crystallography....Pages 681-713 Back Matter....Pages 715-819