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Water Oligomers in Crystal Hydrates—What's News and What Isn't?
Author(s) -
Mascal Mark,
Infantes Lourdes,
Chisholm James
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200501839
Subject(s) - aggregate (composite) , crystal structure , crystal (programming language) , chemistry , crystallography , chemical physics , materials science , nanotechnology , computer science , programming language
How does one find out whether an interesting water aggregate observed in an organic crystal structure is novel? The first place to look is in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD). The data are there, but analysis is difficult and it is not routinely done. The result? Many of the water chains, rings, sheets, and clusters reported as novel in the recent literature are actually redundant with published structures in the CSD.