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Structure Determination by X-Ray Crystallography

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This book is a fantastic overview of X-ray crystallography. It covers the basics in great detail, including symmetry, point groups, space groups, reciprocal space, etc. The explanations are easy to understand (as easy as this material can be) and it is reviewed in a good amount of detail. After covering the basic "background" material, the transition into x-ray diffraction and determining the structure from diffraction patters is covered and "flows" quite easily from the discussions of the introductory material. Each section of the book (more or less) builds on material covered in the previous sections and since the subject matter is explained so well, this book is very comprehensive. I never felt that any explanations were ambiguous or lacking in depth or clarity - to the contrary: basically every concept in the book is explained clearly and with sufficient depth to ensure that I was not left with a headful of questions about something.

The authors did an equally excellent job in explaining abstract mathematical ideas (e.g. symmetry, space groups, etc.), theoretical physical concepts (e.g. scattering by electrons, combinations of waves, the phase problem, etc.) and concrete experimental methods (e.g. Weissenberg method, Laue method, X-ray sources, etc.)

This is the book that I would recommend to anyone who wants to understand X-ray crystallography and how to determine crystal structures with X-ray diffraction.

This book is really good for the introduction of the X-ray single crystal structure determination. The text is really clear with useful examples.

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