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Gas-Phase Electron Diffraction for Molecular Structure Determination

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Electron Crystallography

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry ((NAII,volume 211))

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Gas-phase electron diffraction is a unique source of structural information on free molecules. The present introduction gives a brief overview of the technique.

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Hargittai, I. (2006). Gas-Phase Electron Diffraction for Molecular Structure Determination. In: Weirich, T.E., Lábár, J.L., Zou, X. (eds) Electron Crystallography. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 211. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3920-4_13

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