Crystal Structure Analysis, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Cambridge, MA 02139-4307,

This course covers the following topics: X-ray diffraction: symmetry, space groups, geometry of diffraction, structure factors, phase problem, direct methods, Patterson methods, electron density maps, structure refinement, how to grow good crystals, powder methods, limits of X-ray diffraction methods, and structure data bases.