Preface |
Introduction / 1: |
Description of Chemical Structures / 2: |
Coordination Numbers and Coordination Polyhedra / 2.1: |
Description of Crystal Structures / 2.2: |
Atomic Coordinates / 2.3: |
Isotypism / 2.4: |
Problems / 2.5: |
Symmetry / 3: |
Symmetry Operations and Symmetry Elements / 3.1: |
Point Groups / 3.2: |
Space Groups and Space-Group Types / 3.3: |
Positions / 3.4: |
Crystal Classes and Crystal Systems / 3.5: |
Aperiodic Crystals / 3.6: |
Disordered Crystals / 3.7: |
Polymorphism and Phase Transitions / 3.8: |
Thermodynamic Stability / 4.1: |
Kinetic Stability / 4.2: |
Polymorphism / 4.3: |
Phase Transitions / 4.4: |
Phase Diagrams / 4.5: |
Chemical Bonding and Lattice Energy / 4.6: |
Chemical Bonding and Structure / 5.1: |
Lattice Energy / 5.2: |
The Effective Size of Atoms / 5.3: |
Van der Waals Radii / 6.1: |
Atomic Radii in Metals / 6.2: |
Covalent Radii / 6.3: |
Ionic Radii / 6.4: |
Ionic Compounds / 6.5: |
Radius Ratios / 7.1: |
Ternary Ionic Compounds / 7.2: |
Compounds with Complex Ions / 7.3: |
The Rules of Pauling and Baur / 7.4: |
Molecular Structures I: Compounds of Main Group Elements / 7.5: |
Valence Shell Electron-Pair Repulsion / 8.1: |
Structures with Five Valence Electron Pairs / 8.2: |
Molecular Structures II: Compounds of Transition Metals / 8.3: |
Ligand Field Theory / 9.1: |
Ligand Field Stabilization Energy / 9.2: |
Coordination Polyhedra for Transition Metals / 9.3: |
Isomerism / 9.4: |
Molecular Orbital Theory and Chemical Bonding in Solids / 9.5: |
Molecular Orbitals / 10.1: |
Hybridization / 10.2: |
The Electron Localization Function / 10.3: |
Band Theory. The Linear Chain of Hydrogen Atoms / 10.4: |
The Peierls Distortion / 10.5: |
Crystal Orbital Overlap Population (COOP) / 10.6: |
Bonds in Two and Three Dimensions / 10.7: |
Bonding in Metals / 10.8: |
The Element Structures of the Nonmetals / 10.9: |
Hydrogen and the Halogens / 11.1: |
Chalcogens / 11.2: |
Elements of the Fifth Main Group / 11.3: |
Elements of the Fifth and Sixth Main Groups under Pressure / 11.4: |
Carbon / 11.5: |
Boron / 11.6: |
Diamond-like Structures / 12: |
Cubic and Hexagonal Diamond / 12.1: |
Binary Diamond-like Compounds / 12.2: |
Diamond-like Compounds under Pressure / 12.3: |
Polynary Diamond-like Compounds / 12.4: |
Widened Diamond Lattices. SiO[subscript 2] Structures / 12.5: |
Polyanionic and Polycationic Compounds. Zintl Phases / 12.6: |
The Generalized 8 - N Rule / 13.1: |
Polyanionic Compounds, Zintl Phases / 13.2: |
Polycationic Compounds / 13.3: |
Cluster Compounds / 13.4: |
Packings of Spheres. Metal Structures / 13.5: |
Closest-packings of Spheres / 14.1: |
Body-centered Cubic Packing of Spheres / 14.2: |
Other Metal Structures / 14.3: |
The Sphere-packing Principle for Compounds / 14.4: |
Ordered and Disordered Alloys / 15.1: |
Compounds with Close-packed Atoms / 15.2: |
Structures Derived of Body-centered Cubic Packing (CsCl Type) / 15.3: |
Hume-Rothery Phases / 15.4: |
Laves Phases / 15.5: |
Linked Polyhedra / 15.6: |
Vertex-sharing Octahedra / 16.1: |
Edge-sharing Octahedra / 16.2: |
Face-sharing Octahedra / 16.3: |
Octahedra Sharing Vertices and Edges / 16.4: |
Octahedra Sharing Edges and Faces / 16.5: |
Linked Trigonal Prisms / 16.6: |
Vertex-sharing Tetrahedra. Silicates / 16.7: |
Edge-sharing Tetrahedra / 16.8: |
Packings of Spheres with Occupied Interstices / 16.9: |
The Interstices in Closest-packings of Spheres / 17.1: |
Interstitial Compounds / 17.2: |
Structure Types with Occupied Octahedral Interstices in Closest-packings of Spheres / 17.3: |
Perovskites / 17.4: |
Occupation of Tetrahedral Interstices in Closest-packings of Spheres / 17.5: |
Spinels / 17.6: |
Symmetry as the Organizing Principle for Crystal Structures / 17.7: |
Crystallographic Group-Subgroup Relations / 18.1: |
The Symmetry Principle in Crystal Chemistry / 18.2: |
Structural Relationships by Group-Subgroup Relations / 18.3: |
Symmetry Relations at Phase Transitions. Twinned Crystals / 18.4: |
Physical Properties of Solids / 18.5: |
Mechanical Properties / 19.1: |
Piezoelectric and Ferroelectric Properties / 19.2: |
Magnetic Properties / 19.3: |
Nanostructures / 20: |
Pitfalls and Linguistic Aberrations / 21: |
References |
Answers to the Problems |
Index |
Preface |
Introduction / 1: |
Description of Chemical Structures / 2: |
Coordination Numbers and Coordination Polyhedra / 2.1: |
Description of Crystal Structures / 2.2: |
Atomic Coordinates / 2.3: |