Studies on the Radial Distribution Analysis in Diffraction Methods:II. Effect of Non-nuclear Scattering and Analysis of the Radial Distribution Curve

An improved procedure is described for determining the molecular structures from electron diffraction data of gases by the radial distribution method. By this procedure the structural data can be straight-forwardly obtained from the radial distribution function derived from the observed intensity data without any assumption on the structure and disregard of the effect of non-nuclear scattering. The radial distribution function derived here is the sum of the nuclear distribution function and the additional terms which have the same forms as the former. A method of the analysis of the radial distribution curve is developed by use of the moments of the distribution function. In addition, Karle and Karle's procedure is discussed and errors involved there are estimated.