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Crystal Structure Refinement: A Crystallographer's Guide to SHELXL (International Union of Crystallography Texts on Crystallography)

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If your a beginner or intermediate this book is great for you. The Shelx manual is as hard to read as a normal manual tends to be. This book takes you through a lot of things step by step and is a good accompanying text to the manual. Its well worth the money and written by someone who knows what he is talking about....

This book is an excellent source of information for beginners that have proceeded beyond the first steps of structure determination and even for experienced users. It is most likely not a book one would read all the way through (even though that is possible). However, it contains lots of useful examples how different problems in structure determination can be dealt with. I had been working with structure determinations for more than ten years when I bought the book and I have learnt lots from it since then. (As a crystallographer, you will encounter problems you've never seen before until your terminal breath ...). It is a very nice complement to Massa's book, which gives you the theoretical background and enables you getting started. Many people use the SHELX programs. If you are about staring using them, these two books are strongly recommended (and the manual, of course ...).

The book gives some examples on how to deal with some problems that might encounter while solving a structure. However, I suggest refer to the SHELXL user manual if one is just need to learn the software.

For the beginer, it's a very good textbook with lots of examples and useful refs. However, if you are like to read the SHELXL manual, you can save your money, hehe!