University of Vienna, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, AT-1090 Vienna, Austria.
Center for Nanotechnology Innovation@NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza S. Silvestro 12, IT-56127 Pisa, Italy.
Chem Rev. 2021 Oct 13;121(19):11823-11834. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00207. Epub 2021 Sep 17.
In the past few years, many exciting papers reported results based on crystal structure determination by electron diffraction. The aim of this review is to provide general and practical information to structural chemists interested in stepping into this emerging field. We discuss technical characteristics of electron microscopes for research units that would like to acquire their own instrumentation, as well as those practical aspects that appear different between X-ray and electron crystallography. We also include a discussion about applications where electron crystallography provides information that is different, and possibly complementary, with respect to what is available from X-ray crystallography.
在过去的几年中，许多令人兴奋的论文报道了基于电子衍射晶体结构测定的结果。本文的目的是为有兴趣涉足这一新兴领域的结构化学家提供一般和实用的信息。我们讨论了希望购买自己仪器的研究单位的电子显微镜的技术特点，以及电子晶体学与 X 射线晶体学之间存在差异的实际方面。我们还讨论了电子晶体学提供的信息与 X 射线晶体学相比可能不同且互补的应用。
