>People also felt that the RMSD bond/angle of 0.016/1.6 was still a little high.
This was subject of a discussion before on the board and I still don't understand it: If I recall correctly, even in highly accurate and precise small molecule structures, the rmsd of corresponding bonds and angles are ~0.014A and 1.8deg. It always seems to me that getting these values much below is not a sign of crystallographic prowess but over-restraining them? Is it just that - given good resolution in the first place - the balance of restraints (matrix weight) vs low R (i.e., Xray data) gives the best Rfree or lowest gap at (artificially?) lower rmsd? Is that then the best model? I understand that even thermal vibration accounts for about 1.7 deg angle deviation - are lower rmsd deviations then a manifestation of low temp? But that does not seem to be much of an effect, if one looks at the tables from the CSD small mol data (shown in nicely in comparison to the 91 Engh/Huber data in Tables F, pp385). Thx, br
