Modern Crystallography 2: Structure of Crystals [Paperback]

The four-volume treatment Modern Crystallography presents an encyclopaedic exposition of problems concerning the structure of crystals, their growth and their properties. Structure of Crystals deals with crystal structures in inorganic and organic compounds, polymers, liquid crystals, biological crystals and macromolecules.

Structure of Crystals describes the ideal and real atomic structure of crystals as well as the electronic structures. The fundamentals of chemical bonding between atoms are given, and the geometric representations in the theory of crystal structure and crystal chemistry, as well as the lattice energy, are considered. The important classes of crystal structures in inorganic compounds as well as the structures of polymers, liquid crystals, biological crystals, and macromolecules are treated. This edition is complemented with recent data on many types of crystal structures - e.g., the structure of fullerenes, high-temperature superconductors, minerals, and liquid crystals.1. Principles of Formation of the Atomic Structure of Crystals.- 1.1 The Structure of Atoms.- 1.1.1 A Crystal as an Assembly of Atoms.- 1.1.2 Electrons in an Atom.- 1.1.3 Multielectron Atoms and the Periodic System.- 1.2 Chemical Bonding Between Atoms.- 1.2.1 Types of Chemical Bonding.- 1.2.2 Ionic Bond.- 1.2.3 Covalent Bond. Valence-Bond Method.- 1.2.4 Hybridization. Conjugation.- 1.2.5 Molecular-Orbital (MO) Method.- 1.2.6 Covalent Bond in Crystals.- 1.2.7 Electron Density in a Covalent Bond.- 1.2.8 Metallic Bond.- 1.2.9 Weak (van der Waals) Bonds.- 1.2.10 Hydrogen Bonds.- 1.2.11 Magnetic Ordering.- 1.3 Energy of the Crystal Lattice.- 1.3.1 Experimental Determination of the Crystal Energy.- 1.3.2 Calculation of the Potential Energy.- 1.3.3 Organic Structures.- 1.4 Crystallochemical Radii Systems.- 1.4.1 Interatomic Distances.- 1.4.2 Atomic Radii.- 1.4.3 Ionic Radii.- 1.4.4 The System of Atomic-Ionic Radii of a Strong Bond.- lãâ