Symmetry, spectroscopy and crystallography. The structural nexus / Симметрия, спектроскопия и кристаллография. Структурная взаимосвязь

This book is the outgrowth of a graduate-level “Special Topics in Structural chemistry and Symmetry Course” taught concurrently in Hebrew at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, and in English at the Feinberg Graduate School, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. One educational goal of the course was to expose the participants to a path toward stereochemical knowledge different than the one ordinarily presented in standard organic stereochemistry lectures. In recent years, this course has become part of the advanced undergraduate curriculum of the Cross-Border Program in Biological Chemistry administered by the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz and the Jihoˇceská Univerzita v ˇ Cesk´ych Budˇejovicích, (University of South Bohemia, Budweis, Czech Republic) – two neighboring universities on either side of a common, and now peaceful, international frontier. It is hoped that similar binational programs integrating students in a common goal toward mutual cultural exchange and tolerance through advanced science education will one day be the norm between my own country and its Arab neighbors. Over the past three decades, this course has been given, in whole or in part, around the world (Australasia: Uni. Wollongong AU; Uni. Auckland NZ; Massey Uni., NZ; Uni. Kyoto JP; Uni. Mandalay, Myanmar MM; Europe: Uni. Twente NL; Uni. Zagreb HR; Serbian Acad. Sci., Belgrade RS; Bo˘gaziçi Uni., Istanbul TR; and the Americas: UCLA; Uni. Syracuse; Nacional Autonom. Univ. Mexico MX; CINVESTAV – Nacional Polytech. Inst. Mexico MX; Uni. Nacional Costa Rica CR; Uni. Fed. Rio de Janeiro BR; Fluminense Fed. Uni. BR; Uni. National Córdoba AR; and Uni. Nacional Tucumán AR). <...>