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Inorganic Crystal Structures Solved from EM Images and Refined to 0.02 À Accuracy Against Electron Diffraction Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

Sven Hovmöller ,
Xiaodong Zou  and
Thomas Weirich
Sven Hovmöller
Affiliation:
Structural Chemistry, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Swedene-mail: svenh@struc.su.se
Xiaodong Zou
Affiliation:
Structural Chemistry, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Swedene-mail: svenh@struc.su.se
Thomas Weirich
Affiliation:
Structural Chemistry, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Swedene-mail: svenh@struc.su.se
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Single crystal X-ray diffraction is the traditional method for accurate crystal structure determination. A major difficulty in X-ray crystallography is the phase problem; diffracted intensities contain amplitude information but no phases. In order to solve a structure, the phases of at least the strongest reflections must be estimated by Patterson techniques, so-called direct methods or in any other way. Once the structure has been solved (i.e. the atoms found to within about 0.2 Ångström of their correct positions), then refinement is rather straight-forward for single crystal data. Typically, single crystals diffract to about 1 Â resolution. After refinement, the atomic co-ordinates are obtained with an accuracy of about 0.01 Â for organic molecules and down to 0.001 Â for inorganic structures. One limitation of single crystal X-ray diffraction is that the crystals need to be at least about 10μm in all dimensions in order to diffract, even if the radiation source is a synchrotron.

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Computational Methods for Microscopy
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 3 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '97, Microscopy Society of America 55th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 31st Annual Meeting, Histochemical Society 48th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, August 10-14, 1997 , August 1997 , pp. 1141 - 1142
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1997

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