ISSN:0889-311X    

DOI:10.1080/08893119808035401

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1998

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

Studies and insights on the crystal packing of organic molecules are reviewed, beginning with the first investigations of intermolecular effects in the sixties, the early database studies in the seventies, and proceeding to the structure correlation principle and the Kitaigorodski approach to intermolecular analysis. Present-day instrumentation allows a new attitude towards organic small-molecule X-ray crystallography: connections with solid-state thermodynamics and kinetics are envisaged. Recent Cambridge Database studies, new intermolecular “bonds”, optimizations of crystal potentials, and crystal structure generation and prediction software, are critically analyzed, together with crystal engineering which, as it appears now, is a branch of synthetic organic chemistry. The future of theoretical studies of crystals, and more generally of all physical chemistry, is molecular dynamics; its use in simulating and describing solids, liquids and solutions is outlined, with special attention to crystal nucleation and growth. In summary, a broader definition of the crystallographically oriented scientist is sought, and it is argued that crystallography should not be surrendered to macromolecular chemistry without fighting.

ISSN:0889-311X    

DOI:10.1080/08893119808035402

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1998

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

This is a scanned image of the original Editorial Board page(s) for this issue.

ISSN:0889-311X    

DOI:10.1080/08893119808035400

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1998

数据来源: Taylor