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Educational and
professional goals:
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The lecture covers a concise introduction to crystallography. The aim of the course is to present the information that will allow students to use and understand scientific literature on the structures of small molecules determined by X-ray diffraction.
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Course description:
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The course covers the definition of the crystal and its most important properties like the unit cell, crystal lattices, lattice directions and planes. The other important issues relevant to the study of crystallography are also included. These are: symmetry and its properties, point symmetry, translational symmetry, complex symmetry elements; point groups and space groups; properties of X-rays. Laue and Bragg’s diffraction theories; experimental methods of X-ray crystallography: Laue method, oscillation method, goniometric methods; determination of unit cell parameters; elements of crystal chemistry: crystallization techniques, crystal growth theories, imperfect crystals, energetic aspects of the crystals structures; elements of crystallophysics; interpretation of the crystal and molecular structure based on crystallographic databases.
Literature:
1. P. Luger, Modern X-ray Analysis on Single Crystals, Walter de Gruyter and Co., Berlin 1980.
2. C. Giacovazzo, H. Z. Monaco, D. Biterbo, F. Scordari, G. Gilli, G. Zanotti, M. Catti, Fundamentals of Crystallography, IUCR, Oxford University Press, 2000.
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