Dear crystallographers,
although many laughed off one CCP4BB poster's comments several months ago as
an April fools' trick (he had proposed that Bijvoet had actually botched the
job, as I remember), there is now apparently experimental evidence against
that trick:
"Was Bijvoet right? Sodium rubidium (+)-tartrate tetrahydrate revisited.Lutz
M, Schreurs AM.
Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Crystal and Structural Chemistry,
Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The
Netherlands.
The first determination of the absolute configuration of an organic compound
was published in 1951 on sodium rubidium (+)-tartrate tetrahydrate,
Na(+).Rb(+).C(4)H(4)O(6)(2-).4H(2)O, but the atomic coordinates are not
available in the public literature. This structure has therefore been
redetermined using current equipment. The most up-to-date techniques for the
determination of the absolute configuration have been applied and the
question posed in the title can be answered with an unequivocal ;yes'."
JPK
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