Overview
- Most thorough treatment of crystal geometry and symmetry of any book on the market
- New chapter on neutrons, neutron diffractions, and neutron facilities with several examples of solved structures
- Discussion of computational methods of structure determination, including a suite of computer programs
- New section on Bioinformatics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Request lecturer material: sn.pub/lecturer-material
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (13 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
The advances in and applications of x-ray and neutron crystallography form the essence of this new edition of this classic textbook, while maintaining the overall plan of the book that has been well received in the academic community since the first edition in 1977. X-ray crystallography is a universal tool for studying molecular structure, and the complementary nature of neutron diffraction crystallography permits the location of atomic species in crystals which are not easily revealed by X-ray techniques alone, such as hydrogen atoms or other light atoms in the presence of heavier atoms. Thus, a chapter discussing the practice of neutron diffraction techniques, with examples, broadens the scope of the text in a highly desirable way. As with previous editions, the book contains problems to illustrate the work of each chapter, and detailed solutions are provided. Mathematical procedures related to the material of the main body of the book are not discussed in detail, but are quotedwhere needed with references to standard mathematical texts. To address the computational aspect of crystallography, the suite of computer programs from the fourth edition has been revised and expanded. The programs enable the reader to participate fully in many of the aspects of x-ray crystallography discussed in the book. In particular, the program system XRAY* is interactive, and enables the reader to follow through, at the monitor screen, the computational techniques involved in single-crystal structure determination, albeit in two dimensions, with the data sets provided.
Exercises for students can be found in the book, and solutions are available to instructors.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Structure Determination by X-ray Crystallography
Book Subtitle: Analysis by X-rays and Neutrons
Authors: Mark Ladd, Rex Palmer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3954-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-3956-1Published: 01 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-3954-7Published: 08 July 2014
Edition Number: 5
Number of Pages: XXXV, 756
Number of Illustrations: 367 b/w illustrations, 52 illustrations in colour
Topics: Physical Chemistry, Crystallography and Scattering Methods, Protein Structure, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Geophysics/Geodesy