A METHOD TO DETERMINE THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE OF MOLECULES HAVING AN UNKNOWN STRUCTURE BY X-RAY DIFFRACTION AT A TWO DIMENSIONAL ARRAY OF THE MOLECULES ON THE SURFACE OF KNOWN MOLECULAR CRYSTAL

摘要

The invention presents an x-ray method for determining the three-dimensional molecular structure of molecules having an unknown structure. The molecules having unknown structure are arranged in a two-dimensional periodic array on a substrate molecular crystal having a known structure. It is a requirement of the method that the dimensions of the molecules with the unknown structure are smaller than the corresponding dimensions of the substrate crystal unit cell.