Organic Crystal Chemistry

'This book is an excellent introduction to these various applications of crystallographic studies and should be place in the hands of any young person considering a career in crystal chemistry. It is an admirable refutation of the misperception of many scientists that crystallography is a service rather than a scientific study ... carefully prepared and edited ... this volume is important reading for anyone working in the field of crystal chemistry.'Penlope W. Codding

• Introduction: Current topics in organic crystal chemistry; Polymorphism and the investigation of structure-property relations in organic solids; Werner clathrates: Guest-lattice interactions in MIIX2A4 complexes; Modelling steroid hormone receptor interactions on the basis of crystallographic and biochemical studies; Crystallographic studies of inter- and intra-molecular interactions; The effect of solvent-surface interactions on crystal growth and dissolution; Intermolecular interactions in the crystals of simple cyclic b-diketoalkanes; Strain in cyclo-annulated aromatic systems; Stereochemistry of methyl and methoxy substituents in polycyclic hydrocarbons; The relations between S-O hypervalent bonds and S...O close contacts in crystal structures of sulfuranes, analogous sulfonium salts and related compounds containing X-S...O(X=S, C1, O, N, C) moeities; ISIS: A powerful new tool for organic crystal chemistry; Aryloxide-aluminium II-bonding in the II-face selectivity of co-ordinated ketones towards nucleophilic attack; Cation-anion interactions in crystalline quininium salts; Influence of electric field on polymorphism in isotactic polypropylene; Organic crystal chemistry in the 1990's.