| Modern Perspectives in Inorganic Crystal Chemistry Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Parthé, Erwin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9401052093 ISBN-13: 9789401052092 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Chemistry - Inorganic - Science | Physics - Crystallography - Science | Chemistry - Physical & Theoretical |
| Dewey: 548 |
| Series: NATO Science Series C: |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.93 lbs) 282 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The study of crystal structures has had an ever increasing impact on many fields of science such as physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, medicine, pharmacy, metallurgy, mineralogy and geology. Particularly, with the advent of direct methods of structure determination, the data on crystal structures are accumulating at an unbelievable pace and it becomes more and more difficult to oversee this wealth of data. A crude rationalization of the structures of organic compounds and the atom coordinations can be made with the well-known Kekule model, however, no such generally applicable model exists for the structures of inorganiC and particularly intermetallic compounds. There is a need to rationalize the inorganic crystal structures, to find better ways of describing them, of denoting the geometrical relationships between them, of elucidating the electronic factors and of explaining the bonding between the atoms with the aim of not only having a better understanding of the known structures, but also of predicting structural features of new compounds. |