A refinement of the crystal structure of 9-methyladenine
A refinement of the crystal structure of 9-methyladenine
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9-甲基腺嘌呤晶体结构的精修
DOI:
10.1107/s0567740877003252
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发表时间:
1977
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通讯作者:
M. Rossi
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作者:
T. Kistenmacher;M. Rossi
C6N5H7, monoclinic, space group P2Jc, with a= 7.682 (2), b= 12.330 (3), c= 8.501 (2) A,/~= 123.12 (2), V= 674.43 A3, Z= 4, Din= 1.474 (4), De= 1.469 g cm-3. Full-matrix least-squares refinement led to a final R value of 0.061. The X-ray crystal structure of C6NsH~ has been previously studied by Stewart & Jensen [J. Chem. Phys.(1964), 40, 2071-2075] employing a limited set of three-dimen-sional data (385 independent Fo's) and isotropic refine-ment of the nonhydrogen atoms. The results presented here are based on a more extensive set of data (1882 independent Fo's), with anisotropic refinement of the nonhydrogen atoms and inclusion of H atoms at the isotropic level.Introduction. The crystal structure of 9-methyladenine (Stewart & Jensen, 1964) was first undertaken to estab-lish whether the transition moment for the first UV band of 9-methyladenine was short-axis or long-axis polarized. Since such information can be deduced without high precision for the atomic parameters, the original structural investigation was based only on the 385 most intense reflections out of a possible 1572 ac-cessible within the limiting sphere for Cu Ka radiation (Stewart & Jensen, 1964). More recently, however, neutral 9-methyladenine (de Meester, Goodgame, Skapski & Warnke, 1973; Sletten & Thorstensen, 1974; Sletten & Ruud, 1975; McCall & Taylor, 1975; Szalda, Kistenmacher & Marzilli, 1975; Kisten-macher, Marzilli & Szalda, 1976) and the N (1)-protonated 9-methyladenine cation (Terzis, 1976) have been employed as models for the binding of adenine nucleosides and nucleotides to metal ions and metal complexes. One aspect of these studies, besides the position of the metal binding site, is the effect on the bond lengths and bond angles in the heterocyclic ring system due to the bonding of the metal ion or metal complex. Such detailed information requires a more precise determination of the atomic positions and derived bond lengths and angles for 9-methyladenine. Crystals of 9-methyladenine were grown from an aqueous solution which was made slightly basic, pH= 8, by the addition of KOH. The crystal used in our diffractometer study was a prismatic needle-_ with the following dimensions:(011)-(011) 0.25,(01])--(0i 1) 0.20 and (100)-(] 00) 0.25 mm, with a as