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Models, Mysteries and Magic of Molecules
Models, Mysteries
and Magic of Molecules
Edited by
Jan C.A. Boeyens
University of Pretoria, South Africa
and
J.F. Ogilvie
Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
ix
List of Contributors
xiii
A. METHODS
1. Raman Spectroscopy: The Biomolecular Detection of Life
in Extreme Environments
1
Howell G.M. Edwards and Michael D. Hargreaves
2. X-ray Diffraction of Photolytically Induced Molecular Species
in Single Crystals
29
Jacqueline M. Cole
3. Molecular Conformation and Crystal Lattice Energy Factors
in Conformational Polymorphs
63
Ashwini Nangia
4. How Guests Settle and Plan their Escape Route in a Crystal:
Structural Metrics of Solvation and Desolvation for Inorganic
Diols
87
Alessia Bacchi
5. Structural Determination of Unstable Species
109
Yuji Ohashi
B. MYSTERIES
6. Is Polymorphism Caused by Molecular Conformational Changes?
137
Ivan Bernal
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