Modern Perspectives in Inorganic Crystal Chemistry
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Erwin Parthé.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Dordrecht
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1992
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(292 pages 33 illustrations)
SERIES
Series Title
NATO ASI series., Series C,, Mathematical and physical sciences ;, 382.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Preface. Symmetric Relationships between Crystal Structures and their Practical Applications; G.C. Chapuis. Cluster Solid State Chemistry: A Frontier Discipline Between Metallurgy and Molecular Chemistry; R. Chevrel. Structural and Bonding Principles in Metal Halide Cluster Chemistry; J.D. Corbett. Modern Concepts of Atom Coordinations, Atom Volume and Charge Transfer in Intermetallic Compounds; M.L. Fornasini. The Intergrowth Concept as a Useful Tool to Interpret and Understand Complicated Intermetallic Structures; Y.N. Grin. Introduction to the Electronic Structure of Extended Systems; R. Hoffmann. Crystal Chemical Formulae for Inorganic Structure Types; J. Lima-de-Faria. Crystal Chemistry of Complex Sulfides (Sulfosalts and its Chemical Application; E. Makovicky. The Bond Valence Method in Crystal Chemistry; M. O'Keeffe. Valence Electron Rules for Compounds with Tetrahedral Structures and Anionic Tetrahedron Complexes; E. Parthe. Structural Principles of Silicates, Photospates, Sulphates and Related Structures; D.Y. Pushcharovsky. Crystal Chemistry of High Tc Superconducting Oxides; B. Raveau, C. Michel, M. Hervieu. Competition Between Trigonal Prisms and other Coordination Polyhedra in Borides, Carbides, Silicides and Phosphides; P. Rogi. Index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book contains the contributions of 13 well known specialists in the field of solid state chemistry who had invited as lectures at a 1992 NATO Advanced Study Institute in Erice, Sicily. The chapters of a more general character concern the use of the space group-subgroup relatioship for the recognition of structure families, the crystal chemical formulae (which is a way of denoting simple crystal chemical information in a condensed form), the concepts of atom coordination, atom volume and charge transfer and the physicist's view of the bond strength in the solid which is measured by the crystal orbital overleap population. It is demonstrated for the case of ionic compounds that the bond valence method is superior to the old sum-of-radii method for the prediction of interatomic distances. Simple valence electron rules can be applied to compounds with tetrahedral anion complexes. These rules allow one not only to make predictions on expected structural features of unknown compounds, but also to point out inconsistencies between the reported structure and composition of known comounds. Detailed accounts are presented on the crystal chemistry of the superconducting copper oxids, the sulfosalts, the metal cluster compounds, the silicates and the transition metal borides and related compounds. In the case of intermetallic compounds the intergrowth concept is found to be very useful for an 'understanding' of complicated atom arrangements. At the end of each chapter there can be found problems and their solutions. This makes it possible for (advanced) undergraduates in chemistry, physics, metallurgy, materials science and mineralogy to be able to profit from a study of this book.
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute and the 19th International School of Crystallography, Erice, Sicily, Italy, May 29-June 7, 1992