Acta Crystallographica Section A

Foundations of Crystallography

Volume 63, Part 6 (November 2007)



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[Cover illustration] Cover illustration: The molecular form of the guanosine-5'-phosphate tetramer [Zimmerman (1976). J. Mol. Biol. 106, 663-672] has vertices at points of a cubic lattice with parameter a defined by the distance of O6 from the centre. The height is H = 2a and the basis a square scaled by a factor 6 from the central hole. Another square, scaled by 3[square root]2 and turned by 45°, separates phosphates and bases. The indices of the molecular forms are indicated. Courtesy of A. Janner.

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Acta Cryst. (2007). A63, 441-446  [ doi:10.1107/S0108767307044455 ]

The piezoelectric effect of second order in stress or strain: its form for crystals and quasicrystals of any symmetry

H. Grimmer

Synopsis: The restrictions on the coefficients describing the piezoelectric effect of second order in stress or strain are given for all the orientations that can be expressed by the sequence of elements in the Hermann-Mauguin symbol of the crystal or quasicrystal point group.

Online 17 October 2007


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Acta Cryst. (2007). A63, 447-454  [ doi:10.1107/S0108767307044789 ]

A systematic approach to the derivation of standard orientation-location parts of symmetry-operation symbols

K. Stróz

Synopsis: A new approach to the derivation of standard orientation-location parts of symmetry-operation symbols from symmetry matrices is described. The method is also applicable to the symmetry operations in non-conventional space-group settings and its standardization procedure may be used in other derivation techniques.

Online 17 October 2007


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Acta Cryst. (2007). A63, 455-464  [ doi:10.1107/S0108767307043759 ]

The electron-spin-nuclear-spin interaction studied by polarized neutron scattering

H. B. Stuhrmann

Synopsis: The directional properties of electron-proton spin interaction in an external magnetic field give rise to an anisotropic distribution of the intensity of polarized neutron scattering from dynamically polarized protons of radical molecules in solution.

Online 17 October 2007


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Acta Cryst. (2007). A63, 465-480  [ doi:10.1107/S0108767307047411 ]

The crystallographic fast Fourier transform. Recursive symmetry reduction

A. Kudlicki, M. Rowicka and Z. Otwinowski

Synopsis: Algorithms are presented for maximally efficient computation of the crystallographic fast Fourier transform (FFT). The approach is applicable to all 230 space groups and allows reduction in both the computation time and the memory usage by a factor equal to the number of symmetry operators. The central idea is a recursive reduction of the problem to a series of transforms on grids with no special points.

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Acta Cryst. (2007). A63, 481-482  [ doi:10.1107/S0108767307044522 ]

An analytical expression for the characteristic length scale for randomly faulted hexagonal close-packed structures

P. Tiwary and D. Pandey

Synopsis: An analytical expression for the characteristic length scale of the pair correlation functions for faulted hexagonal close-packed structures is derived.

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Acta Cryst. (2007). A63, 483  [ doi:10.1107/S0108767307041207 ]

Complete online set of International tables for crystallography

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Acta Cryst. (2007). A63, 484-508  [ doi:10.1107/S0108767307032965 ]

Report of the Executive Committee for 2006

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Acta Cryst. (2007). A63, 509-510  [ doi:10.1107/S0108767307050076 ]

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