Direct Phasing in Crystallography: Fundamentals and Applications (International Union of Crystallography Monographs on Crystallography 8)
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Carmelo Giacovazzo (Author)
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Direct methods are, at present, applied to a large variety of cases: X-ray, neutron or electron data; single crystal and powder data; small molecules and macromolecules. While direct methods solved in practice the phase problem for small molecules, their application to macromolecules is recent and still undergoing strong development. The fundamentals of the methods are described: in particular it is shown how the methods can be optimized for powder, neutron or electron data, and how they can be integrated with isomorphous replacement, molecular replacement and anomalous dispersion techniques. Maximum Entropy methods are also described and discussed. Sets of test structures are used to verify, throughout the various chapters, the mathematical techniques there described and to provide practical examples of applications. This book will appeal to a wide variety of readers - offering both a comprehensive description of direct methods in crystallography and an invaluable reference tool. The first three chapters can be considered as an introduction to the field, with sufficient material to constitute a university course and for allowing the expert use of most direct methods programs. Subsequent chapters are aimed at graduate students and working crystallographers. Basic results are described and discussed in the main body of the text, while the appendices compliment these with in depth mathematical details. The quoted literature is extremely wide and the interested reader can find suggestions for future work and further reading throughout the book. 8 halftones, 226 line drawings
About the Author
Professor Carmelo Giacovazzo, Professor of Mineralogy, Dipartemento Geomineralogico, Universita di Bari, Via Orabona, 4 70125 Bari, Italy. Tel: 0039 80 5442590. Fax: 0039 80 5442591. Email: giacovazzo@area. ba.cnr.it
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- Contributor: Carmelo Giacovazzo
- Imprint: Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780198500728
- Number of Pages: 792
- Packaged Dimensions: 162x241x51mm
- Packaged Weight: 1
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Release Date: 1998-11-26
- Series: International Union of Crystallography Monographs on Crystallography
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Professor Carmelo Giacovazzo, Professor of Mineralogy, Dipartemento Geomineralogico, Universita di Bari, Via Orabona, 4 70125 Bari, Italy. Tel: 0039 80 5442590. Fax: 0039 80 5442591. Email: giacovazzo@area. ba.cnr.it
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