The significant impediment to the use of electron diffraction data for crystal structure analysis is, of course, the perturbation of n-beam dynamical effects. In more severe cases this dynamical perturbation gives an intensity distribution in the diffraction pattern which is not directly related to the underlying crystal structure, thus making the determination of complex structures nearly impossible by this technique.However, as was experimentally established in Vainshtein's laboratory and is theoretically predicted, the diffraction of electrons from thin mosaic crystals composed of light atoms is in accord with kinematical theory to a good first approximation and, furthermore, ab initiocrystal structure analyses are tractable viastandard crystallographic phase determination. To date the few electronographic determinations of unknown organic structures have used either trial and error or Patterson techniques.
