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Chemical Crystallography before X-ray Diffraction

2012/2013 mark the 100th anniversary of von Laue’s diffraction of X-rays from single crystals of copper sulfate, the postulation of Bragg’s law, and the solution of the first X-ray structure. However, even before 1912, the study of crystals was an integral part of chemistry and it played a major role in development of modern chemical science, including key concepts such as atoms, molecules, isomerism, and chirality.

chirality; crystallography; history of science; optical activity; solid state

Posvećeno dr. sc. Biserki Kojić-Prodić povodom njezinog 75. rođendana i prof. dr. sc. Branku Kaitneru povodom njegovog 70. rođendana. Rad je na njemačkom jeziku tiskan u Angewandte Chemie 126 (2014) (3) 650-665.