Crystal Structure Analysis: A Primer (Iucr Texts on Crystallography) - Softcover

Glusker, Jenny Pickworth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199576351 ISBN 13: 9780199576357

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2010

Synopsis

Crystal Structure Analysis, Third Edition, explains how and why the detailed three-dimensional architecture of molecules can be determined by an analysis of the diffraction patterns obtained when X-rays or neutrons are scattered by the atoms in single crystals. Part 1 covers the nature of the crystalline state, diffraction in general, and diffraction by crystals, and also looks briefly at experimental procedures. Part II examines the problem of converting the experimentally obtained data into a model of the atomic arrangement that scattered these beams. Part III discusses techniques for refining the approximate structure to the degree warranted by the experimental data. It also describes the many types of information that can be obtained by modern crystal structure analysis. The text is enhanced by numerous illustrations, a detailed glossary, and several appendices that cover mathematical details.

About this title

About the Author

Jenny Pickworth Glusker is Senior Member Emeritus at the Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, and Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania.

The late Kenneth N. Trueblood taught at UCLA for most of his career. For his profound influence on beginning chemistry students, he received the first UCLA Distinguished Teaching award (1961) and the national award for excellence in teaching given by the Manufacturing Chemists Association in 1978.

Review

"This book would make an excellent text for an undergraduate and/or graduate level course in x-ray analysis of single crystals for structure determinations. It would also serve as a good introduction for an interested individual." --The Microscope

"Can be highly recommended as an undergraduate text...and... to any scientist who desires an introduction to structure determination....In producing their second edition, the authors have made the book even better by updating and judiciously enlarging it" --Acta Crystallographica

"This book is a truly excellent introduction to the concepts and practices of single-crystal diffraction. It is written in a comfortable style , and the illustrations...are generally excellent....I enthusiastically recommend it to beginning students." --Journal of the American Chemical Society

"An excellent book for people starting to learn to solve structures of crystals."--I. Kahn, Illinois Institute of Technology

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0199576351
• ISBN 13: 9780199576357
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 304