Structure and Chemistry of Crystalline Solids

Bodie Douglas is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry of the University of Pittsburgh. He has had three editions of an inorganic chemistry textbook and a textbook on symmetry and group theory. He spent a year with the crystallographic group of Sir Gordon Cox at the University of Leeds (England). Shi-Ming Ho retired from Westinghouse Research Laboratory where he worked in materials science. Ideas for the system used for describing structures in this book were part of his doctoral dissertation with Bodie Douglas.

Classification of Crystals, Point Groups, and Space Groups.- Close Packing and the PTOT System.- Crystal Structures of the Elements and Some Molecular Crystals.- Structures Involving P and O Layers.- Crystal Structures Involving P and T Layers.- Crystal Structures Involving P, T, and O Layers.- Structures with Multiple Layers.- Crystal Structures of Some Intermetallic Compounds.- Crystal Structures of Silica and Metal Silicates.- Structures of Organic Compouds.- Predicting Structures and Assigning Notations.

From the reviews of the first edition:"This book is very interesting and useful for its ability to describe systematically the often-overlooked similarities among crystal structures that appear, at first glance, to be very different. As such, it will appeal to specialists in crystal chemistry who are interested in probing deeper into structural similarities and differences in solid-state compounds and also to educators and students who desire supplementary information about crystal structures." (Raymond E. Schaak, JACS, Vol. 129 (2), 2007)