Could be a case of modeler bias. Just look at the name of the
institute. This is like having a Jessie Helms endowed chair in the
therapeutic benefits of tobacco.
On Aug 8, 2008, at 8:31 AM, Jacob Keller wrote:
> 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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