The possible merohedral or hemihedral twinning operators for different
point groups are:
True point group Twin operation hkl related to
3 2 along a,b h,-h-k,-l
2 along a*,b* h+k,-k,-l
2 along c -h,-k,l
4 2 along a,b,a*,b* h,-k,-l
6 2 along a,b,a*,b* h,-h-k,-l
321 2 along a*,b*,c -h,-k,l
312 2 along a,b,c -h,-k,l
23 4 along a,b,c k,-h,l
References:
Yeates, T.O. (1997) Methods in Enzymology 276, 344-358. Detecting and
Overcoming Crystal Twinning.
and information from the following on-line sites:
CNS site http://cns.csb.yale.edu/v1.1/
CCP4 site http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/dist/html/detwin.html
SHELX site http://shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de/rherbst/twin.html