Weak hydrogen bonding. Part 1. Neutron diffraction data of amino acid Cα–H suggest lengthening of the covalent C–H bond in C–H ⋯ O interactions

Author(s):  
Thomas Steiner
2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (10) ◽  
pp. 949-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia C. Capelli ◽  
Hans-Beat Bürgi ◽  
Sax A. Mason ◽  
Dylan Jayatilaka

Neutron diffraction data have been collected at 12, 50, 150 and 295 K for the dipeptide glycyl-L-alanine, C5H10N2O3, in order to obtain accurate positional and anisotropic displacement parameters for the H atoms. The values of these parameters serve as a benchmark for assessing the equivalent parameters obtained from a so-called Hirshfeld-atom refinement of X-ray diffraction data described elsewhere [Capelliet al.(2014).IUCrJ,1, 361–379]. The flexibility of the glycyl-L-alanine molecule in the solid and the hydrogen-bonding interactions as a function of temperature are also considered.


Author(s):  
G. E. Bacon ◽  
D. H. Titterton ◽  
C. R. Walker

AbstractNeutron-diffraction data have been collected from a KBr single crystal. 380 reflections were measured, reducing to 23 when averaged over equivalents. Data were corrected for extinction and thermal diffuse scattering and refinement yielded a neutron coherent scattering amplitude


1995 ◽  
Vol 236 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haluk Resat ◽  
Enci Zhong ◽  
Harold L. Friedman

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 1113-1120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esko Oksanen ◽  
François Dauvergne ◽  
Adrian Goldman ◽  
Monika Budayova-Spano

H atoms play a central role in enzymatic mechanisms, but H-atom positions cannot generally be determined by X-ray crystallography. Neutron crystallography, on the other hand, can be used to determine H-atom positions but it is experimentally very challenging. Yeast inorganic pyrophosphatase (PPase) is an essential enzyme that has been studied extensively by X-ray crystallography, yet the details of the catalytic mechanism remain incompletely understood. The temperature instability of PPase crystals has in the past prevented the collection of a neutron diffraction data set. This paper reports how the crystal growth has been optimized in temperature-controlled conditions. To stabilize the crystals during neutron data collection a Peltier cooling device that minimizes the temperature gradient along the capillary has been developed. This device allowed the collection of a full neutron diffraction data set.


2005 ◽  
Vol 387 (1-2) ◽  
pp. L8-L10 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gil ◽  
B. Penc ◽  
J. Hernandez-Velasco ◽  
E. Wawrzyńska ◽  
A. Szytuła

ChemInform ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gil ◽  
B. Penc ◽  
J. Hernandez-Velasco ◽  
E. Wawrzynska ◽  
A. Szytula

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