Crystal engineering : the design of organic solids / Gautam R. Desiraju
- Author:
- Desiraju, G. R. (Gautam R.)
- Published:
- Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1989.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 312 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND CRYSTAL ENGINEERING: Crystal engineering -- Why design crystal structures of organic molecules -- Some extensions -- THE ATOM-ATOM POTENTIAL METHOD AND THE CLOSE-PACKING MODEL FOR MOLECULAR CRYSTALS: Intermolecular forces in crystals -- The atom-atom potential method -- The close-packing model of Kitaigorodskii -- Crystal structure prediction -- CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DATABASES AND THE RECOGNITION OF INTERMOLECULAR PATTERNS: The nature and growth of crystallographic information -- The Cambridge Structural Database -- Intermolecular patterns in crystals -- STRUCTURES BASED MOSTLY ON VAN DER WAALS FORCES: Non-bonded interactions involving carbon and hydrogen atoms -- Effects of van der Waals forces on crystal packing -- Occupied and unoccupied volumes in crystals -- SOME STRUCTURES BASED ON HYDROGEN BONDING: Rationalisation of hydrogen bonding patterns -- The role of C-H ... O interactions in determining crystal structures -- Other types of hydrogen bonding in crystals -- STRUCTURES BASED ON INTERMOLECULAR CONTACTS TO HALOGEN ATOMS: The nature of halogen ... halogen forces -- The geometry ofhalogen ... halogen interactions -- Design of halogen ... halogen stabilised crystal structures -- Contacts between halogen and non-halogen atoms -- STRUCTURES BASED ON INTERMOLECULAR CONTACTS TO SULPHUR: The nature of sulphur ... heteroatom contacts -- Crystal design and engineering -- DESIGNING NON-CENTROSYMMETRIC CRYSTALS: Some properties and applications of non-centrosymmetric crystals -- Methods of crystal design -- Non-centrosymmetry in other organised media -- STRUCTURES BASED ON INTERACTIONS BETWEEN DISTINCT MOLECULAR SPECIES: SOLID SOLUTIONS, DONOR-ACCEPTOR COMPLEXES AND CLATHRATES: Design of crystal structures of molecular complexes -- POLYMORPHISM-THE NEMESIS OF CRYSTAL DESIGN?: Polymorphism and crystal structure design.
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- ISBN:
- 00444874587 (U.S.)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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