caa a22 4500 469072121 CHVBK 20180323132924.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00678413 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00678413 Berezin Alexander Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University, L8S 4M1, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada aut Isotopic lattice symmetry: An unexplored area of research [Elektronische Daten] [Alexander Berezin] The existence of isotopes is a well-known and widely used fact of chemistry. Nevertheless, despite all the attention to the isotopes of individual elements, there have been very few, if any, attempts to look at the whole notion of isotopicity as a unique phenomenon in its own way. This article is an attempt to fill this gap. The general assumption of the perfect isotopic randomness in molecules and crystals might have a complimentary aspect in the possibility of positional correlations in isotope distribution. I introduce the notion of isotopic freedom to reflect positional flexibility of different isotopes within structural constraints of a given elemental sublattice. In this vein, the whole notion of isotopicity can be seen as an overlooked outfit for "Nature's quest for patterns,” complimentary to other known manifestations of spontaneous pattern formation. I also discuss the potential of artificial isotopic structuring for fundamental and applied research directions, an option that also has remained largely unused until the present time. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1992 Structural Chemistry Kluwer Academic Publishers 3/3(1992-06-01), 169-174 1040-0400 3:3<169 1992 3 11224 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00678413 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00678413 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Berezin Alexander Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University, L8S 4M1, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Structural Chemistry Kluwer Academic Publishers 3/3(1992-06-01), 169-174 1040-0400 3:3<169 1992 3 11224 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer