Identification of enantiomorphously related space groups by electron diffraction
Abstract
A simple procedure is presented for the identification of enantiomorphous space groups by electron diffraction. This is based on the ability to determine the sense of an asymmetry in a projection, which is a property of N-beam dynamic diffraction. The steps in this procedure follow those of the X-ray procedure which depends upon anomalous dispersion instead of dynamic scattering. To illustrate and test the electron-diffraction procedure, a space-group determination was carried out on a sample of dextrorotatory -quartz: space group P3221 was found, in agreement with the findings of de Vries Nature, Lond. (1958), 181, 1193.