International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume G
Definition and exchange of crystallographic data
Edited by S. R. Hall and B. McMahon

International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. G. ch. 3.2, p. 92

Table 3.2.1.1 

S. R. Hall,a* P. M. D. Fitzgeraldb and B. McMahonc

a School of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, 6009, Australia,bMerck Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey, USA, and cInternational Union of Crystallography, 5 Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2HU, England
Correspondence e-mail:  syd@crystal.uwa.edu.au

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Category groups defined in the core CIF dictionary

The groups are listed in the order in which they are described in this chapter.

Section Category group Subject covered
(a) Experimental measurements
3.2.2.1[link] CELL Unit cell
3.2.2.2[link] DIFFRN Diffraction experiment
3.2.2.3[link] EXPTL Experimental conditions
     
(b) Analysis
3.2.3.1[link] REFINE Refinement procedures
3.2.3.2[link] REFLN Reflection measurements
     
(c) Atomicity, chemistry and structure
3.2.4.1[link] ATOM Atom sites
3.2.4.2[link] CHEMICAL Chemical properties and nomenclature
3.2.4.3[link] GEOM Geometry of atom sites
3.2.4.4[link] SYMMETRY Symmetry information
3.2.4.5[link] VALENCE Bond-valence information
     
(d) Publication
3.2.5.1[link] CITATION Bibliographic references
3.2.5.2[link] COMPUTING Computational details of the experiment
3.2.5.3[link] DATABASE Database information
3.2.5.4[link] JOURNAL Journal housekeeping
3.2.5.5[link] PUBL Contents of a published article
     
(e) File metadata
3.2.6[link] AUDIT Dictionary maintenance and identification