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

International Tables for Crystallography (2026). Vol. G. Early view chapter
https://doi.org/10.1107/97809553602060001017

Chapter 4.8 Electron density dictionary (rhoCIF)

Paul R. Mallinsona

aDepartment of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.

The data names defined in this dictionary are suitable for describing aspherical electron density distributions around atoms using a multipole model.

Keywords: electron density Crystallographic Information File; electron density; rhoCIF dictionary; density functional theory; multipole expansion model.

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