Chemical crystallography–science, technology or a black art
X-ray single crystal structure analysis has become a gold standard for the determination of molecular geometry. The reliability of the technique is a triumph for science and technology working together. The uniqueness of well-crystalline material intrigued early natural philosophers, and their examinations, followed by the discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals, led to the powerful technology that we now enjoy. For about three quarters of a century molecular structure determination has been a driving force for crystallographic research, but now that the science has matured into a technology, interest is returning in trying to understand the nature of crystals themselves. Subject Index Abrahams, S.C 207, 208 Acorn 223 Acta Crystallographica 207, 209, 217 Anisotropy 200 Anthracene 208 Area detectors 214, 216 Aspirin 219 Banerjee, K 208 Beevers-Lipson strips 208, 209 Bond, A.D 219 Booth, A.D 207 Braconnot, H 222–224 Bragg, W.H 200, 201 Brock, C 219, 220 Cambridge Structural Database 217–219 Carruthers, J.R 213 Caspari, W.A 203, 204, 222 CCDC 217, 218, 221, 222 Chapuis, G 210 Charge flipping 210 Cochran, W 207, 208 Comrie, L.J 208 Contact goniometer 200 Crystal 198–203, 205, 207–225 Crystal structures 205, 207, 212, 217, 221 Crystal GEM 224 Crystallization 217, 222–224 CRYSTALS 212 Debye, P 202 Descartes, René 198 Direct methods 207, 208, 210, 212, 220 Duane, W 202 Flack, H 217, 221 Friedrich, W 200, 203 Gavezzotti, A 217, 221 Gillis, J 208 Gittus, E 208 Goniometer 200, 213, 214 Hamilton, W.R 200 Harker, D 205, 207, 208 Hauptman, H 208 Haüy, René-Just 199 Havinghurst, R.J 202 Heavy atom 207, 211 Hexachlorobenzene 203, 205 Hollerith tabulator 209 Hooke, R 199 Hydrogen bonding 217 International Tables 205–208 International Union of Crystallography 207, 218 Ionization spectrometer 212 Kappa geometry 200, 216 Karle, J 208 Kasper, J.S 208 Kekulé, A 200 Kennard, O 217 Kepler, J 198 Knipping, P 200, 203 Labradorite 198 Laue, M von 200, 203 Lonsdale, K 203–206 Maddox, J 221 MOGUL 218 Molecule 199, 202–205, 216, 217, 219–221, 224 Molécule intégrante 224 Morphology 200, 203, 222, 224 MULTAN 212 Naphtalene 208 Niggli, A 212 Nitroaniline 207 Optical goniometer 200, 213, 214 Orway 210 Oszlanyi, G 210 Oxalic acid 208 Palatinus, L 210 Pasteur, I 200, 202 Patterson, A.L 203, 205, 207, 208, 212 Pepinsky, R 199 Phase problem 205, 209–212 PLATON 217 Potassium chloride 201 Potassium penicillin 220 Powell, H.M 203 Precession camera 213 Prout, K 208, 209 Quinol 203, 204 Robertson, J.M 207, 208 Royal Institution 205, 206, 214 Sayre, D.M 208, 211 Schoeni, N 210 Serial diffractometer 214, 216 Shake-n-Bake 212 Snowflake 198 Sodium ammonium tartrate 200, 202 Sodium chloride 201 Space filling 200 Space group 200, 203, 205, 208, 210, 212, 219, 220 Sparks, Bob 212 Steno, N 199 Sugar 223 Suto, A 210 Symbolic addition 212 Symmetry 200, 207 Synchrotron 216 Tangent formula 208 Temperature factor 202 Twinning 198, 200, 203, 204, 214, 216 Unit cell 199, 202, 203, 205, 208, 213 Vand, V 212 Viola, C 200 Vishweshwar, P 219 VONVUP 220, 221 Wallwork, S.C 203 Weissenberg camera 213–215 White, J.G 208 X-ray diffraction 200, 207, 224