You are provided with a photocopied set of references for this practical. They must be returned at the conclusion of the second day's work. Please also ensure that you leave the model building and drawing equipment in good order.
L. Smart & E. Moore, Solid State Chemistry, 2nd edn., Chapman & Hall, 1995, Ch. 1 (an excellent overview)
D.F. Shriver, P.W. Atkins & C.H.Langford, Inorganic Chemistry, 2nd edn., OUP., 1994, Ch. 4 (very basic)
J.E. Huheey, E.A. Keiter & R.L. Keiter, Inorganic Chemistry, 4th edn., HarperCollins, 1993, Ch. 4
B.E. Douglas, D.H. McDaniel & J.J. Alexander, Concepts & Models of Inorganic Chemistry, 3rd edn. Wiley, 1994, Ch. 5
D.M. Adams, Inorganic Solids, Wiley, 1974, esp. Ch. 1-5 (an excellent book, sadly out of print)
A.R. West, Solid State Chemistry, Wiley, 1984, Chs. 7, 8 (Description/Rationalization of structures)
U. Müller, Inorganic Structural Chemistry, Wiley, 1993, Chs. 2, 6, 10, 11, 13-16 (Standard material and especially useful supplementary info.)
Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford 1st Year Practical, Structures of Simple Inorganic Solids
Other Texts
A.F. Wells, Structural Inorganic Chemistry, 5th edn., OUP., 1984, (Classic, comprehensive reference book)
R.C. Evans, An Introduction to Crystal Chemistry, 2nd edn., CUP., 1966 (Very clear diagrams of structures)
F.S. Galasso, Structures & Properties of Inorganic Solids, Pergamon, 1970 (Crystallographic info.)
J.K. Burdett, Chemical Bonding in Solids, OUP, 1995 (Advanced Discussion of Pauling's Rules)
Structure of Solids a world wide web based first year lecture course (Michealmas Term) for the Oxford undergaraduate students, by Dr. Stephen Heyes
Crystal Lattices are shown by both Strukturbericht Designation and by Pearson Symbol. Pictures and vector descriptions are collected here for a wide range of structures. xyz coordinates may be downloaded to view the structure in e.g. RasMol
This page shows stereoviews of some lattices and also interstitial holes. Clinographic perspective views of 3D solid structures are necessarily in 2-dimensions! Observing the two stereoview pictures in the correct way gives an apparent 3-dimensional quaility to the image, enhancing the ability to visualize it.
The ICSD of the University of Bonn is the definitive database of Inorganic Crystal Structures that have been determined by means of diffraction experiments. The structural parameters used to define the structures in these lectures were retrieved from the ICSD through the UK access point, the Chemical Database Service (CDS) at the Daresbury Laboratory, CLRC. The CDS service also allows access to the CRYSTMET Database of the NRC, Canada and the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), which respectively provide structures for metals and C-C/C-H bond-containing materials.