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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