Structural Methods in Molecular Inorganic Chemistry

摘要

The book on hand is a new edition of Structural Methods in Inorganic Chemistry, originally by Ebsworth, Rankin, and Cradock, which was first published in 1987 by Blackwell Science. Since then, a lot has changed in the field of structural inorganic chemistry, and therefore the title of the book has also been changed, with the focus on molecular inorganic chemistry. Thus, structure elucidation techniques belonging to the study of "materials chemistry" are not included, and this is also clearly stated by the authors of the present edition, D. W. H. Rankin, Norbert Mitzel, and Carole Morrison. The book aims to provide the reader with all the necessary knowledge and tools for the interpretation of results from measurements. Therefore, the in-depth theoretical introductions that were included at the beginning of each chapter of the earlier book Structural Methods in Inorganic Chemistry have been omitted, and instead the reader is referred to the literature cited at the end of each chapter.