Structure Determination by X-ray Crystallography

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xlii

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2. Crystal Morphology and Crystal Symmetry

   • Mark Ladd, Rex Palmer

   Pages 1-50

3. Lattices and Space-Group Theory

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   Pages 51-116

4. I X-rays, X-ray Diffraction, and Structure Factors

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   Pages 117-211

5. I Optical and X-ray Examination of Crystals

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   Pages 213-287

6. Fourier Series and Fourier Transforms

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   Pages 289-333

7. Fourier Techniques in X-ray Structure Determination

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   Pages 335-419

8. Direct Methods and Refinement

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   Pages 421-518

9. Examples of Crystal Structure Determination

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   Pages 519-565

10. X-ray Structure Determination with Powders

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    Pages 567-614

11. Proteins and Macromolecular X-ray Analysis

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    Pages 615-679

12. Computer-Aided Crystallography

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    Pages 681-713

13. Back Matter

    Pages 715-819

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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.

• X-Ray
• crystal
• crystallography
• diffraction
• mining
• mineral resources

• Department of Chemistry, University of Surrey, Guildford, England

  Mark Ladd

• Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, England

  Rex Palmer

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