ENANTIOMORPHISM AND MULTIPLE-BEAM X-RAY-DIFFRACTION

Authors
COLELLA R
Citation
R. Colella, ENANTIOMORPHISM AND MULTIPLE-BEAM X-RAY-DIFFRACTION, Acta crystallographica. Section A, Foundations of crystallography, 50, 1994, pp. 55-57
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Crystallography
Journal title
Acta crystallographica. Section A, Foundations of crystallography → ACNP
ISSN journal
01087673
Volume
50
Year of publication
1994
Part
1
Pages
55 - 57
Database
ISI
SICI code
0108-7673(1994)50:<55:EAMX>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
It is shown that multiple-beam X-ray diffraction does not provide a me ans of distinguishing between the two enantiomorphic forms of the same crystal. A detailed proof is presented for the case of benzil. It is also shown that, without anomalous dispersion, multiple-beam diffracti on is equally incapable of determining the polarity of acentric crysta ls. Applications are presented to results published in recent literatu re.