Overview
- Describes coupling of crystallography to quantum chemical calculations
- Interdisciplinary appeal that spans the physical sciences
- Contributions from international experts
Part of the book series: Structure and Bonding (STRUCTURE, volume 186)
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About this book
This volume summarises recent developments and highlights new techniques which will define possible future directions for small molecule X-ray crystallography. It provides an insight into how specific aspects of crystallography are developing and shows how they may interact or integrate with other areas of science.
The development of more sophisticated equipment and the massive rise in computing power has made it possible to solve the three-dimensional structure of an organic molecule within hours if not minutes. This successful trajectory has resulted in the ability to study ever more complex molecules and use smaller and smaller crystals. The structural parameters for over a million organic and organometallic compounds are now archived in the most commonly used database and this wealth of information creates a new set of problems for future generations of scientists. The volume provides some insight into how users of crystallographic structural data banks can navigatetheir way through a world where “big data” has become the norm. The coupling of crystallography to quantum chemical calculations provides detailed information about electron distributions in crystals affording a much more detailed analysis of bonding than has been possible previously. In quantum crystallography, quantum mechanical wavefunctions are used to extract information about bonding and properties from the measured X-ray structure factors. The advent of quantum crystallography has resulted in form and structure factors derived from quantum mechanics which have been used in advanced refinement and wavefunction fitting. This volume describes how quantum mechanically derived atomic form factors and structure factors are constructed to allow the improved description of the diffraction experiment. It further discusses recent developments in this field and illustrates their applications with a wide range of examples.
This volume will be of interest to chemists and crystallographers with an interest in the synthesis, characterisation and physical and catalytic properties of solid-state materials. It will also be relevant for the community of computational chemists who study chemical systems. Postgraduate students entering the field will benefit from a historical introduction to the way in which scientists have used the data derived from crystallography to develop new structural and bonding models.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paul Raithby has been Professor of Inorganic and Structural Chemistry at the University of Bath since 2000. Prior to that he spent 25 years as a Faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) and of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has published over 860 refereed research papers and has given over 100 lectures at national and international meetings during his career. His current research focusses on coordination chemistry, the development of the chemistry of platinum poly-ynes as sensor materials, and he has pioneered the development of time-resolved crystallographic techniques for determining the three-dimensional structures of crystalline, excited state complexes with millisecond lifetimes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: 21st Century Challenges in Chemical Crystallography II
Book Subtitle: Structural Correlations and Data Interpretation
Editors: D. Michael P. Mingos, Paul R. Raithby
Series Title: Structure and Bonding
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64747-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64746-9Published: 21 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64749-0Published: 22 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64747-6Published: 20 January 2021
Series ISSN: 0081-5993
Series E-ISSN: 1616-8550
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 231
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations, 70 illustrations in colour
Topics: Analytical Chemistry, Crystallography and Scattering Methods, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Organic Chemistry