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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 (née Crowfoot), Kathleen Lonsdale (née 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.
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Periodic Table of the Elements (Inside Front Cover). Foreword. Preface. Disclaimer. Physical Constants and Other Numerical Data. Notation. 1. Crystal Morphology and Crystal Symmetry. 2. Lattices and Space-Group Theory. 3. I. X-Rays, X-Ray Diffraction and Structure Factors. II. Intensities and Intensity Statistics. 4. I. Optical and X-Ray Examination of Crystals. II. Measurement of Intensity Data from Single Crystals. 5. Fourier Series and Fourier Transforms. 6. Fourier Techniques in X-Ray Structure Determination. 7. Direct Methods Search Methods and Refinement. 8. Examples of Crystal Structure Determination. 9. X-Ray Structure Determination with Powders. 10. Proteins and Macromolecular X-Ray Analysis. 11. Computer-Aided Crystallography. Appendices. Tutorial Solutions. Index.
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Mark F. C. Ladd is a professor at the University of Surrey.
Rex Palmer is a professor at the University of London.
