Crystal Structure Refinement: A Crystallographer's Guide to Shelxl [With CDROM]

by Peter Müller, Herbst-Irmer Regine, Spek Anthony, et al.

Crystal Structure Refinement is a mixture of textbook and tutorial. As A Crystallographers Guide to SHELXL it covers advanced aspects of practical crystal structure refinement, which have not been much addressed by textbooks so far. After an introduction to SHELXL in the first chapter, a brief survey of crystal structure refinement is provided. Chapters three and higher address the various aspects of structure refinement, from the treatment of hydrogen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198570767
• ISBN13: 9780198570769
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent handbook for advanced beginners

This book is an excellent source of information for beginners that have proceeded beyond the first steps of structure determination and even for experienced users. It is most likely not a book one would read all the way through (even though that is possible). However, it contains lots of useful examples how different problems in structure determination can be dealt with. I had been working with structure determinations for more than ten years when I bought the book and I have learnt lots from it since then. (As a crystallographer, you will encounter problems you've never seen before until your terminal breath ...). It is a very nice complement to Massa's book, which gives you the theoretical background and enables you getting started. Many people use the SHELX programs. If you are about staring using them, these two books are strongly recommended (and the manual, of course ...).

Great for Everyone.....

If your a beginner or intermediate this book is great for you. The Shelx manual is as hard to read as a normal manual tends to be. This book takes you through a lot of things step by step and is a good accompanying text to the manual. Its well worth the money and written by someone who knows what he is talking about....

A very good textbook

For the beginer, it's a very good textbook with lots of examples and useful refs. However, if you are like to read the SHELXL manual, you can save your money, hehe!