Ab-initio X-ray powder diffraction (see cover for typical spectra) is shown to be a powerful structural tool for (i) insoluble, thermally unstable, compounds which cannot be (re)crystallised from solution or from the melt; (ii) metastable phases destroyed or modified upon manipulation; (iii) twins; (iv) very small crystals and/or crystal aggregates; (v) gas/solid, liquid/solid and solid-state reactions fragmenting and misorienting the coherent domains of the starting crystals but conserving the (poly)crystalline nature of the sample.
The contribution of powder diffraction methods to structural co-ordination chemistry
Masciocchi N.;
1997-01-01
Abstract
Ab-initio X-ray powder diffraction (see cover for typical spectra) is shown to be a powerful structural tool for (i) insoluble, thermally unstable, compounds which cannot be (re)crystallised from solution or from the melt; (ii) metastable phases destroyed or modified upon manipulation; (iii) twins; (iv) very small crystals and/or crystal aggregates; (v) gas/solid, liquid/solid and solid-state reactions fragmenting and misorienting the coherent domains of the starting crystals but conserving the (poly)crystalline nature of the sample.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.