• Preface ; Acknowledgements ; 1. A basic introduction to x-ray crystallography ; 2. Crystal growth, evaluation and mounting ; 3. Symmetry and space group determination ; 4. Background theory for data collection ; 5. Data collection using four-circle diffractometers ; 6. Area detectors ; 7. Fourier syntheses ; 8. Structure determination by Patterson methods ; 9. Direct methods of crystal structure determination ; 10. An introduction to maximum entropy ; 11. Least squares fitting of parameters ; 12. Practical aspects of structure refinement ; 13. The derivation of results ; 14. The interpretation of results ; 15. The presentation of results ; 16. The Crystallographic Information File (CIF) ; 17. Crystallographic databases ; 18. Other topics ; A. Useful mathematics and formulae ; B. A short crystallographic dictionary ; C. Answers to the exercises

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