Partially Coherent Scattering in Stellar Chromospheres. IV. Analytic Wing Approximations

1993 ◽  
Vol 415 ◽  
pp. 811 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. G. Gayley
Author(s):  
Douglas L. Dorset ◽  
Anthony J. Hancock

Lipids containing long polymethylene chains were among the first compounds subjected to electron diffraction structure analysis. It was only recently realized, however, that various distortions of thin lipid microcrystal plates, e.g. bends, polar group and methyl end plane disorders, etc. (1-3), restrict coherent scattering to the methylene subcell alone, particularly if undistorted molecular layers have well-defined end planes. Thus, ab initio crystal structure determination on a given single uncharacterized natural lipid using electron diffraction data can only hope to identify the subcell packing and the chain axis orientation with respect to the crystal surface. In lipids based on glycerol, for example, conformations of long chains and polar groups about the C-C bonds of this moiety still would remain unknown.One possible means of surmounting this difficulty is to investigate structural analogs of the material of interest in conjunction with the natural compound itself. Suitable analogs to the glycerol lipids are compounds based on the three configurational isomers of cyclopentane-1,2,3-triol shown in Fig. 1, in which three rotameric forms of the natural glycerol derivatives are fixed by the ring structure (4-7).


1979 ◽  
Vol 129 (9) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
G.S. Egorov ◽  
S.N. Mensov ◽  
Nikolai S. Stepanov

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


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