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Structure Determination Techniques Flex Their Muscles
Author(s) -
Blake Alexander J.
Publication year - 2017
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.201706526
Subject(s) - molecule , diffraction , electron diffraction , tetranitromethane , gas phase , crystallography , crystal structure , x ray crystallography , flex , materials science , chemistry , nanotechnology , computer science , physics , optics , organic chemistry , nitration , telecommunications
A historical challenge : Gas‐phase electron diffraction and single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction are both established techniques, but they were both pushed to their limits by the challenge posed by the highly flexible tetranitromethane molecule. New approaches had to be developed for the structure of the molecule to be elucidated.