Algae play a crucial role in the earth's primary productivity by producing not only oxygen but
also a variety of high-value nutrients. One such nutrient is polyunsaturated fatty acids …

Whereas single-crystal X-ray crystallography has represented an active area of research
since shortly after the discovery of X-rays, the subjects of crystal design and crystal …

Background The designed construction of extended porous frameworks from soluble
molecular building blocks represents one of the most challenging issues facing synthetic …

The two-volume Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry offers authoritative, centralized
information on a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field. User-friendly and high-quality …

In crystal chemistry and crystal physics, the relations between the symmetry groups (space
groups) of crystalline solids are of special importance. Part 1 of this book presents the …

Modern crystal engineering has emerged as a rich discipline whose success requires an
iterative process of synthesis, crystallography, crystal structure analysis, and computational …

About 8% of crystal structures contain more than one independent molecule or formula unit;
the number being denoted by the parameter Z'. To most chemists and crystallographers …

Details of preparation, spectroscopic and structural studies along with crystal field
calculations for two Cr 3+ doped spinels MgAl 2 O 4 and ZnAl 2 O 4 are given in the present …

The present account describes some selected examples of the generation of
supramolecular architectures by recognition-directed self-assembly of components …

Crystalline clathrates formed from two-dimensional guanidinium sulfonate hydrogen-bonded
networks connected by 4, 4 '-biphenyldisulfonate “pillars” in the third dimension exhibit a …