Crystal structure analysis. Principles and practice / Анализ кристаллической структуры. Принципы и практика

The material in this book is derived from an intensive course in X-ray structure analysis organized on behalf of the Chemical Crystallography Group of the British Crystallographic Association and held every two years since 1987. As with a crystal structure derived from X-ray diffraction data, the course contents have been gradually refined over the years and they reached a stage in 1999 (the seventh course) where we considered they could be published, and hence made available to a  far wider audience than can be accommodated on the course itself. Theresult was the first edition of this book, published in 2001. The authors were the principal lecturers on the course in 1999 and they revised and expanded the material, while converting the lecture notes into a book format. Because of its origin, the book represented a snapshot of the intensive course, which has continued to evolve, especially as the subject of chemical crystallography has undergone significant changes, mainly due to the widespread availability of area detector technology,
the exponential increase in computing power and improvements in software, and greater use of synchrotron radiation and powder diffraction. Nevertheless, the underlying principles remain valid, and the particular application of those principles can be adapted to new developments for some time to come <...>