Structural chemistry


Structural chemistry is a part of chemistry and deals with spatial structures of molecules and solids.
The main tasks are the formulation of general laws for structure-property relationships and the derivation of general rules how the chemical and physical properties of the constituents of matter determine the resulting structures.
For structure elucidation are range of different methods are used. One has to distinguish between methods that elucidate solely the connectivity between atoms and such that provide precise three dimensional information such as atom coordinates, bond lengths and angles and torsional angles. The latter methods include :
To identify connectivity and the presence of functional groups a variety of methods of molecular spectroscopy and solid state spectroscopy can be used.