Crystal Structure Determination: The Role of the Cosine Seminvariants

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Springer, Apr 17, 2013 - Science - 407 pages
The central theme of this monograph is that the cosine seminvariants are the key to crystal structures. The cosine seminvariants are the cosines of those linear combinations of the phases (the so-called structure seminvariants) whose values, for a given functional form for the geometric structure factor, are uniquely determined by the crystal structure alone and are there fore independent of the choice of permissible origin. It follows that the cosine seminvariants themselves are uniquely determined, in general, by the observed magnitudes of the normalized structure factors. The values of the cosine seminvariants in turn lead unambiguously to the values of the individual phases and thus to the crystal structure by means of the E-map (Fourier synthesis). It is this property of the cosine seminvariants, that they serve to link the observed magnitudes with the desired phases of the normalized structure factors, which accounts for their importance and explains the emphasis which is here placed on their role.
 

Contents

CHAPTER I
4
The Structure Invariants
12
6
29
CHAPTER II
64
Introduction
67
Formulas for the Cosine Seminvariants Cos 1+2
88
5
112
The Joint Probability Distribution of Two Structure
125
CHAPTER XII
199
4
208
Using Calculated Cosines to Determine Values
211
Valinomycin Strong Enantiomorph Discrimination
216
4
218
The Tangent Techniques
227
THE APPLICATIONS
251
4
288

The Conditional Distribution of E Given
142
k hk
145
The Conditional Distribution of E3+ Given
177
Part B TECHNIQUES OF IMPLEMENTATION
185
3
197
Conclusion
304
CHAPTER XIII
385
BIBLIOGRAPHY
397
197
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