X-Ray Structure Determination: A Practical Guide

About this book

Closely follows an actual structural determination. After some introductory material on the nature of x-rays the diffraction process and the internal geometry of crystals the selection and preparation of a crystal are considered. Techniques of measuring raw x-ray data are covered plus their reduction into a useable form. The second part discusses both traditional and novel methods of solving the phase problem the principal difficulty in x-ray structure determination. The third part considers how to extract the most information from the data and how to evaluate its reliability. Finally there is a discussion of sources of error in practice and interpretation.