Advances in Molecular Structure Research, Volume 1

✍ Scribed by Magdolna Hargittai (Editor), Istvan Hargittai (Editor)

• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 369
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Progress in molecular structure research reflects progress in chemistry in many ways. Much of it is thus blended inseparably with the rest of chemistry. It appears to be prudent, however, to review the frontiers of this field from time to time. This may help the structural chemist to delineate the main thrusts of advances in this area of research. What is even more important though, these efforts may assist the rest of the chemists to learn about new possibilities in structural studies, both methodological and interpretation. The aim is to make this a user-oriented series. Structural chemists of excellence will be critically evaluating a field or direction including their own achievements, and charting expected developments.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover......Page 1
ADVANCES IN MOLECULAR STRUCTURE RESEARCH......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 8
INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES: AN EDITOR'S FOREWORD......Page 10
PREFACE......Page 12
CHAPTER 1. MEASURING SYMMETRY IN STRUCTURAL CHEMISTRY......Page 14
CHAPTER 2. SOME PERSPECTIVES IN MOLECULAR STRUCTURE RESEARCH: AN INTRODUCTION......Page 46
CHAPTER 3. ACCURATE MOLECULAR STRUCTURE FROM MICROWAVE ROTATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY......Page 76
CHAPTER 4. GAS-PHASE NMR STUDIES OF CONFORMATIONAL PROCESSES......Page 128
CHAPTER 5. FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY OF RADICALS......Page 170
CHAPTER 6. THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND AB INITIO CALCULATIONS......Page 214
CHAPTER 7. COMPUTATIONAL AND SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES ON HYDRATED MOLECULES......Page 240
CHAPTER 8. EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRON DENSITIES OF MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND CALCULATION OF ELECTROSTATIC PROPERTIES FROM HIGH RESOLUTION X-RAY DIFFRACTION......Page 274
CHAPTER 9. ORDER IN SPACE: PACKING OF ATOMS AND MOLECULES......Page 316
INDEX......Page 352