Models, Mysteries and Magic of Molecules
Molecular behaviour, which is no less than magical, holds the key to the understanding, not only of chemistry, but of all biology and of life itself. It is a mystery why molecular behaviour should remain poorly understood and why the authoritative theorie
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Models, Mysteries and Magic of Molecules Edited by
Jan C.A. Boeyens University of Pretoria, South Africa
and
J.F. Ogilvie Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
ix
List of Contributors
xiii
A. METHODS 1.
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Raman Spectroscopy: The Biomolecular Detection of Life in Extreme Environments Howell G.M. Edwards and Michael D. Hargreaves
1
X-ray Diffraction of Photolytically Induced Molecular Species in Single Crystals Jacqueline M. Cole
29
Molecular Conformation and Crystal Lattice Energy Factors in Conformational Polymorphs Ashwini Nangia
63
How Guests Settle and Plan their Escape Route in a Crystal: Structural Metrics of Solvation and Desolvation for Inorganic Diols Alessia Bacchi Structural Determination of Unstable Species Yuji Ohashi
87
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B. MYSTERIES 6.
Is Polymorphism Caused by Molecular Conformational Changes? Ivan Bernal v
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Crystalline Amino Acids: A Link between Chemistry, Materials Science and Biology Elena Boldyreva
167
Unravelling the Chemical Basis of the Bathochromic Shift of the Lobster Carapace Carotenoprotein Crustacyanin John R. Helliwell and Madeleine Helliwell
193
Tiny Structural Features and their Giant Consequences for Properties of Solids Andrzej Katrusiak
209
Polymorphism in Long-chain N-Alkylammonium Halides Gert J. Kruger, Dave G. Billing and Melanie Rademeyer
219
C. MAGIC 11.
Mysterious Crystallography: From Snow Flake to Virus Aloysio Janner
233
12.
Clusters in F-Phase Icosahedral Quasicrystals Zorka Papadopolos, Oliver Gröning and Roland Widmer
255
13.
Protein-Protein Interactions in the Cyanobacterial KaiABC Circadian Clock Martin Egli, Rekha Pattanayek and Sabuj Pattanayek
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Protein-Protein Docking Using Three-Dimensional Reduced Representations and Based on a Genetic Algorithm Andy Becue, Nathalie Meurice, Laurence Leherte and Daniel P. Vercauteren Tropolone as Neutral Compound and Ligand in Palladium Complexes Gideon Steyl and Andreas Roodt
283
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D. MODELS 16.
Theoretical and Experimental Models of Molecules Illustrated with Quantum-Chemical Calculations of Electronic Structure of H2 CN2 Isomers J.F. Ogilvie and Feng Wang
341
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Recurrent Complex Modules instead of Molecules in Non-molecular Compounds: Describing a
