FURTHER REFINEMENT OF STRUCTURE OF SUCROSE BASED ON NEUTRON-DIFFRACTION DATA
FURTHER REFINEMENT OF STRUCTURE OF SUCROSE BASED ON NEUTRON-DIFFRACTION DATA
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DOI:
10.1107/s0567740873003353
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发表时间:
1973-01-01
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通讯作者:
LEVY, HA
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作者:
BROWN, GM;LEVY, HA
The structure of sucrose, C12H22Oli, has been further refined using the neutron-diffraction data of Brown & Levy [Science (1963). 141,921-923] and the full-matrix least-squares method, with an isotropic extinction corrections. The final discrepancy index R (F) is 0-033 and the standard deviation of fit is 0" 997. Parameters and structural details reported earlier are confirmed at a higher level of precision. Standard errors of bond lengths are as follows: CC and CO, 0.0012 to 0.0019.~; CH, 0-0022 to 0" 0033/~.; OH, 0-0028 to 0.0042,~.Introduction In 1963 we published a preliminary report (Brown & Levy, 1963) on a refinement based on neutron-dif-fraction data of the structure of sucrose (C12H22Oll) as reported by Beevers, McDonald, Robertson & Stern (1952). The structure at a later stage of refine-ment was described at the Rome IU Cr. meeting in 1963 (see also the brief description in Brown & Levy, 1964a). Parameters corresponding to this later stage have been made available on request to a number of interested persons, and comparisons have been made of structural features of sucrose with those of other sugar molecules whose structures have been well determined in the intervening time (see for example: Sundaralin-gam, 1965, 1968; Berman, Chu & Jeffrey, 1967; Fries, Rao & Sundaralingam, 1971; Strahs, 1970; Rohrer, 1972). Because of the scale of the least-squares computa-tional problem (involving the usual nine parameters for each of 45 atoms) relative to the limited capability of the computer used in 1963, the structure parameters had to be refined in blocks and the refinement was not continued to complete convergence. Further, the available least-squares program had no provision for correcting the observations for effects of extinction, as is commonly done today. We had attempted to mini-mize extinction effects (Brown & Levy, 1964a, b) by using data from the smaller two of three crystal speci-mens for the stronger reflections and data from the largest crystal for the weaker reflections which make up the bulk of the data. However, although we were confident that the 1963 atomic coordinates were reli-able, we have been concerned lately about possible errors in the thermal parameters arising as residual effects of extinction. Knowing of a study in progress (see the accompanying paper by Hanson, Sieker & Jensen, 1973) using our neutron parameters in con-junction with new X-ray data to compare thermal parameters for the hydrogen atoms and to study the