• Preface ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Structure determination from powder diffraction data: an overview ; 3. Laboratory x-ray powder diffraction ; 4. Synchroton radiation powder diffraction ; 5. Neutron powder diffraction ; 6. Sample preparation, instrument selection and data collection ; 7. Autoindexing ; 8. Extracting integrated intensities from powder diffraction patterns ; 9. Experimental methods for estimating the relative intensities of overlapping reflections ; 10. Direct methods in powder diffraction - basic concepts ; 11. Direct methods in powder diffraction - applications ; 12. Patterson methods in powder diffraction: maximum entropy and symmetry minimum function techniques ; 13. Solution of patterson-type syntheses with the direct methods sum function ; 14. A maximum entropy approach to structure solution ; 15. Global optimisation strategies ; 16. Solution of flexible molecular structures by simulated annealing ; 17. Chemical information and intuition in solving crystal structures ; Index

The book is an essential and complete text for newcomers to structure solution from powder data, and those who are familiar with the technique should find much of interest in its pages.