Abstract
Anomalous scattering of X-rays at a synchrotron source can be used for the ab initio structure determination of unknown crystal structures using only powder diffraction data. For noncentrosymmetric crystals, the phases of structure factors can only be determined with a remaining ambiguity, when one chemical element is used as resonant scatterer. A corresponding additional constraint function has been built into an enhanced version of the program MEED, so that now all types of information gained from an anomalous-scattering powder diffraction experiment can be used in a maximum-entropy calculation of the electron-density distribution: phased reflections, unphased reflections, intensities of groups of overlapping reflections, and now also reflections with a remaining ambiguity in the phase. This is important for practical use, since a lot of information is already lost in the powder diagram compared with single-crystal datasets and it is essential to use all remaining information. The new constraint is demonstrated with the structure of Cu(5)Zn(8).
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