Crystal Engineering: From Molecules and Crystals to Materials

1. Front Matter

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2. On the Concept of a Single Crystal in Biomineralization

   • L. Addadi, J. Aizenberg, E. Beniash, S. Weiner

   Pages 1-22

3. Introduction to Packing Patterns and Packing Energetics of Crystalline Self-Assembled Structures

   • Jerry Persltein

   Pages 23-42

4. Molecule-Based Magnets

   • Joel S. Miller, Arthur J. Epstein

   Pages 43-53

5. Structure Determination by Neutron and Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering

   • H. Fuess

   Pages 55-78

6. Theory of Intermolecular Interactions

   • Pekka Pyykkö

   Pages 79-88

7. Hydrogen-Bond Assisted Assembly of Organic and Organic-Inorganic Solids

   • C. B. Aakeröy, D. S. Leinen

   Pages 89-106

8. Secondary Bonding as a Potential Design Tool for Crystal Engineering

   • A. Guy Orpen

   Pages 107-127

9. Molecular Packing in Liquids, Solutions, and Crystals: Acetic Acid as a Test Case

   • A. Gavezzotti

   Pages 129-142

10. Crystal Design

    • P. Erk

    Pages 143-161

11. Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Crystalline Inclusion Compounds

    • L. R. Nassimbeni

    Pages 163-179

12. An Approach to the Crystal Engineering of Coordination Networks

    • Mir Wais Hosseini

    Pages 181-208

13. How to Look at Bonds in Extended Solids

    • Maria José Calhorda

    Pages 209-228

14. Diversity and Certainty — Database Research in Crystal Engineering

    • Gautam R. Desiraju

    Pages 229-241

15. The Development and Application of Knowledge-Based Approaches to Molecular Design

    • Robin Taylor, Frank H Allen, Ian J Bruno, Jason C Cole, Magnus Kessler, Jos P M Lommerse et al.

    Pages 243-260

16. Organic Materials for Second-Order Nonlinear Optics

    • Christian Bosshard, Rolf Spreiter, Urs Meier, Ilias Liakatas, Martin Bösch, Matthias Jäger et al.

    Pages 261-278

17. Toward Crystal Design in Organic Conductors and Superconductors

    • U. Geiser

    Pages 279-294

18. Theoretical Prediction of Crystal Structures of Rigid Organic Molecules

    • D. E. Williams

    Pages 295-310

19. Rational Design of Polar Solids

    • B. Moulton, M. J. Zaworotko

    Pages 311-330

20. Energy Minimization as a Tool for Crystal Structure Determination of Industrial Pigments

    • M.U. Schmidt

    Pages 331-348

Crystal engineering is an interdisciplinary area that cuts across the traditional subdivisions of chemistry. Fuelled by our increasingly precise understanding of the chemistry and properties of supramolecular systems, interest in the potential of the field has increased rapidly.
The topics discussed in the 28 contributions in this book provide a state-of-the-art description of the field and offer new research ideas that, if pursued, will serve to strengthen the field at the interface between supramolecular chemistry and materials science.

• bismuth
• bonding
• chemistry
• chromium
• crystal
• crystal structure
• crystallography
• hydrogen
• kinetics
• materials science
• mineral
• scattering
• structure
• supramolecular chemistry
• thermodynamics

• Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  Dario Braga

• Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

  Fabrizia Grepioni

• School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

  A. Guy Orpen

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