Girolami Gregory S. X-ray Crystallography

University Science Books, California, USA, 2016. — 493 p. — ISBN10: 1891389777.This is a well-balanced, thorough, and clearly written introduction to the subject. It features excellent illustrations and homework problems throughout, making it invaluable as a textbook. The book progresses in a logical and clear fashion from the fundamentals through to advanced topics, such as disorder, twinning, microfocus sources, low energy electron diffraction, charge flipping, protein crystallography, the maximum likelihood method of refinement, and powder, neutron, and electron diffraction. The author's clear writing style and distinctive approach is well suited for chemists, biologists, materials scientists, physicists, and scientists from related disciplines. It is a great resource for those who are learning the subject for the first time (both advanced undergraduate and graduate students), and for those who have practical experience but seek a handy reference summary.Symmetry And Space GroupsPoint Symmetry Operations
Point Groups
Periodicity
Travel Symmetry Operations
Two-dimensional Lattices
Three-dimensional Lattices
Two-dimensional Plane Groups
Equivalent Positions
Three-dimensional Space Groups, Part 1
Three-dimensional Space Groups, Part 2
Three-dimensional Space Groups, Part 3
X-Rays and Diffraction
Generation of X-rays
Diffractometers and Data Collection
Data Reduction
Scattering from a Single Electron
Scattering from Atoms
Diffraction from One-dimensional Arrays
Diffraction from Two- and Three-dimensional Arrays
Reciprocal Space and Reflection Indices
Bragg’s Law, Scattering Planes, and d-Spacings
The Limiting Sphere, Resolution, and Indexing
Structure Factors and Argand Diagrams
Phases, Friedel’s Law, and Laue Classes
Centrosymmetry and Chirality
Reflection Conditions
Determining the Space Group of a Crystal
Solving and Refining Crystal Structures
Fourier Transforms in Crystallography
Trial-and-error Methods
Charge Flipping
The Patterson Method
The Heavy Atom Approximation
Protein Crystal Structures
Direct Methods, Part 1
Direct Methods, Part 2
Modeling the Electron Density
Refining Crystal Structures
Twinning
Examples of Twinned Crystals
Mistakes and Pitfalls
Powder X-ray Diffraction
Electron and Neutron Diffraction
Appendices
Vector Tutorial
Complex Number Tutorial
The Ewald Sphere
Atomic Form Factors
The Patterson Function
In-class Demonstration of Diffraction