Crystal Structure Determination (Oxford Chemistry Primers) [Paperback]

William Clegg (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198559011 | ISBN-13: 978-0198559016 | Publication Date: July 16, 1998

This informative book explains the principles and practice of one of the most important methods of determining the structures of molecules, a subject of central interest in modern chemistry. It includes a set of case studies to illustrate how the method works. Mathematical treatment is kept at a relatively low level and is complemented by extensive graphical illustrations.

Editorial Reviews

Review

It will be an essential text for chemistry undergraduates. Other related science undergraduates and postgraduate chemists will also find this book useful./Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 214/3.

About the Author

William Clegg is at University of Newcastle and CCLRC, Davesbury Laboratory.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (July 16, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198559011
• ISBN-13: 978-0198559016
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #264,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #21 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Chemistry > Crystallography

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great introduction, August 30, 2000

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erik krupicka (St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crystal Structure Determination (Oxford Chemistry Primers) (Paperback)

This book is one of the best introduction in crystal structure analysis that I have ever seen! Due to it's limited size (and price !!) it covers the most important topics of x-ray structure analysis in an easy understandable language without boring the reader with mathematical details. You really get a good impression about what the basic principles and problems of x-crystallography are, and how the can be solved. Everybody wanting to start with x-ray structure analysis should read this book at the very beginning.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crystallography in a Nutshell, August 17, 2008

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Dr. Peter Muller (Cambridge, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crystal Structure Determination (Oxford Chemistry Primers) (Paperback)

If you want it in a nutshell then this book is for you. On less than 100 pages Clegg covers the most important basic aspects of X-ray structure determination. Bill Clegg is one of the leading figures in British X-ray crystallography and one of the best educators in the field. "Crystal Structure Determination" is a classic in its own right and a great first text to read if you think you may be interested in crystallography.

Once you got a little deeper into crystallography you may also want to read the following books (I'd recommend to read them in the order given here):
Werner Massa: Crystal Structure Determination
Jenny Glusker / Kenneth Trueblood: Crystal Structure Analysis -- A Primer
Carmelo Giacovazzo: Fundamentals of Crystallography
Peter Mueller: Crystal Structure Refinement -- A Crystallographer's Guide to SHELXL

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good introduction, November 17, 2009

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spumn - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crystal Structure Determination (Oxford Chemistry Primers) (Paperback)

This text is well-written for the stated purpose of introducing chemistry students to the subject of crystal structure determination. Graduate students as well as advanced undergraduates will find this an outstanding point of entry into the field. The language is mostly very clear, but at times, Clegg presumes too much prior knowledge on the part of the reader. Still, it is a more accessible text than most, being light on mathematics, brief, and written in a (mostly) lucid style.

One specific comment, and this may seem trivial, but it is a truly unbelievable oversight on the part of the publisher: the images on pp. 14-15 are printed in literal black-and-white, not grayscale. Hence, the beginning reader may find Clegg's discussion of diffuse fringes quite confusing, as there are in fact no fringes anywhere on the page. The images look rather like a bad Xerox, which is unfortunate, since they really form a visual foundation for beginning readers.