This volume summarises recent developments and possible future
directions for small molecule X-ray crystallography. It reviews
specific areas of crystallography which are rapidly developing and
places them in a historical context. The interdisciplinary nature
of the technique is emphasised throughout. It introduces and
describes the chemical crystallographic and synchrotron facilities
which have been at the cutting edge of the subject in recent
decades. The introduction of new computer-based algorithms has
proved to be very influential and stimulated and accelerated the
growth of new areas of science. The challenges which will arise
from the acquisition of ever larger databases are considered and
the potential impact of artificial intelligence techniques
stressed. Recent advances in the refinement and analysis of X-ray
crystal structures are highlighted. In addition the recent
developments in time resolved single crystal X-ray crystallography
are discussed. Recent years have demonstrated how this technique
has provided important mechanistic information on solid-state
reactions and complements information from traditional
spectroscopic measurements. The volume highlights how the prospect
of being able to routinely "watch" chemical processes as they occur
provides an exciting possibility for the future. Recent advances in
X-ray sources and detectors that have also contributed to the
possibility of dynamic single-crystal X-ray diffraction methods are
presented. The coupling of crystallography and quantum chemical
calculations provides detailed information about electron
distributions in crystals and has resulted in a more detailed
understanding of chemical bonding. The volume will be of interest
to chemists and crystallographers with an interest in the
synthesis, characterisation and physical and catalytic properties
of solid-state materials. Postgraduate students entering the field
will benefit from a historical introduction to the subject and a
description of those techniques which are currently used. Since
X-ray crystallography is used so widely in modern chemistry it will
serve to alert senior chemists to those developments which will
become routine in coming decades. It will also be of interest to
the broad community of computational chemists who study chemical
systems.
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