Preface
1. Crystal symmetry
1.1. Seven crystal systems
1.2. Fourteen Bravais lattices
1.3. Miller indices and lattice direction
1.4. Interrelation between reciprocal and real lattices
1.5. Some transformations in crystallography
1.6. Thirty-two crystallographic point groups (external symmetry)
1.7. Five glide planes and eleven screw axes (internal symmetry)
1.8. Two hundred thirty space groups
2. X-rays
2.1. How do electromagnetic waves originate?
2.2. Generation of X-rays
2.3. Absorption
2.4. Sealed X-ray tubes
2.5. Rotating anode X-ray tube
2.6. Synchrotron radiation
3. Space group determination
3.1. Interference of waves
3.2. Bragg's equation, Ewald sphere and Laue's equation
3.3. Structure factor
3.4. Temperature factor
3.5. Intensity symmetry and asymmetric unit of intensity data
3.6. Systematic absences of intensities
3.7. Space group determination
3.8. Atomic scattering factor and anomalous dispersion
3.9. Eleven enantiomorph...ic pairs of space groups
4. Intensity measurement and data reduction
4.1. X-ray detector
4.2. Four-circle diffractometer
4.3. X-ray source, detector and intensity measurement
4.4. Data reduction
4.5. Normalized and unitary structure factors
5. Phase determination
5.1. Fourier series
5.2. Electron density
5.3. Simulation of electron density map
5.4. Patterson method (heavy atom method)
5.5. Direct methods
5.6. Protein crystallography
6. Refinement and representation of results
6.1. Structure determination
6.2. Geometrical data
Appendix 1. Interplanar Angles
Index