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Graphitic carbons are the most crystalline of the carbonaceous materials of the three regions in Fig. 2. During the last 40 years, the structure of graphitic carbons has been carefully studied by many scientists [2,15,21,22]. 

As this book goes to press, two events have occurred that bear mention. First, the structure of ciguatoxin has just been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (1989, 111, 8929-8931). Despite the determined efforts of many scientists over several years, the structure of this important marine toxin, discussed in Chapters 8,11, and 13, has resisted elucidation. Its publication marks a notable achievement, attained through the cooperation of investigators with different, complementary skills. 

Lithium-ion batteries, high-energy lithium and metal-air batteries, electrochemical capacitors have been changing radically, in recent years, the structure of the market of power sources. 

The dopamine D2 agonist SAR area has been reviewed by Hacksell and coworkers from the perspective of stereochemistry and pharmacological profiles of the enantiomers of the compounds synthesized by that research group during a period of 10 years. The structural classes surveyed were 3-phenylpiperidines, 2-aminotetralins and their ring-methylated analogues and octahydrobenzo[/]quinolines (OHB[f]Qs) [60]. 

The class III deacetylases, named sirtuins, are structurally and functionally different from other HDACs. In contrast to the zinc-dependent deacetylation of classic HDACs, sirtuins depend on NAD" to carry out catalytic reactions. A variety of sirtuin crystal structures have been published over the past few years. The structures of human Sirt2 and SirtS as well as several bacterial Sir2 proteins could be derived, whereas no 3D structure is available for Sirtl and the other subtypes [69]. All solved sirtuin structures contain a conserved 270-amino-acid catalytic domain with variable N- and C-termini. The structure of the catalytic domain consists of a large classic Rossmann fold and a small zinc binding domain. The interface between the large and the small subdomain is commonly subdivided into A, B and C pockets. This division is based on the interaction of adenine (A), ribose (B) and nicotinamide (C) which are parts of the NAD" cofactor. (Figure 3.5) Whereas the interaction of adenine and... 

Whether or not fullerenes have to be considered aromatic has been debated since their discovery [48]. This is because the definition of aromaticity [116-118] is controversial and has changed many times over the last 175 years. The structure of fullerenes, especially that of the icosahedral representatives such as Cjq, implies their consideration as three-dimensional analogues of benzene and other planar aromatics. In contrast to such classical systems, however, the sp -networks of... 

The notion of a BBB first emerged in the early years of the twentieth century when it was observed that organic dyes injected into animals stained all tissues except the brain. There appeared to be some invisible barrier that prevented certain molecules from entering into the brain. Over the past twenty to thirty years, the structural basis of the BBB has been more carefully delineated. Many different structural components contribute to the BBB. 

For several years the structural features of a vitrinite (83.9%C) have been intensively studied. The two macerals, exinite and micrinite, which accompany the above mentioned vitrinite in the dull coal were also examined. 

Rhodium, Iridium. Considerable advances in the chemistry of rhodium 1,1-dithio chelates have taken place in the last 10 years. The structural prototypes for the Rh(R2Dtc)3 and Ir(R2Dtc)3 complexes are now available in x-ray structural determinations of these complexes with R2 = Et2 and Morpho. In the Rh(Et2 Dtc)3 structure (540, 537a) the RhS6 core shows only trivial deviations from D3 symmetry (Table XXI). The same distorted octahedral structure is found for the RhS6 core in the bis benzene solvate of the Rh(MorphoDtc)3 complex (96b). The mean Rh-S bond lengths in the two structures are identical (Table XXI). 

For somewhat over seventy years, the structural proscription against bridgehead double bonds known as Bredt s rule has provided a guiding principle for strained molecules. More precisely, it is suggested that bicyclo m.n./ alk-l-ones are destabilized for small, but nonzero, m, n and p. The enthalpy of formation of three such species is available54 from hydrogenation calorimetry. These are the isomeric bicyclo[3.3.1]non-l-ene (22a), bicyclo[4.2.1]non-l-ene (22b) and bicyclo[4.2.1]non-l(8)-ene (22c), bicyclo[4.2.1]non-A18-ene) with gas-phase enthalpies of formation of 31, 74 and 50 kJ mol-1, respectively. These three numbers alone inadequately address the issue of bridgehead destabilization because the alicyclic carbon skeleton is not the same for all three olefins. 

In the last 10 years the structural studies of tubulin and of its interactions with MT-perturbing agents have been very fruitful. This has been possible as new crystal forms have been obtained and analyzed by state-of-the-art electron microscopy and... 

While the CHS-CHI-F3H-DFR-AS enzymes form the core flavonoid biosynthetic pathway (Fig. 3.2), every intermediate compound in the pathway can be the subject of complex modifications that include hydroxylations, methylations, esterifications, and decorations with a number of sugar moieties. In addition, many of the core enzymes can utilize various substrates resulting in a pathway that is not linear, but rather a complex grid (Fig. 3.2).2 The diverse forms of flavonoids or anthocyanins that accumulate in any plant under any given condition are the result of a combination of the biosynthetic enzymes being expressed together with their substrate specificity. Over the past few years, the structures of several flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes have been elucidated,1 -20 which opens up unlimited opportunities to understand structure-function relationships and to manipulate the pathway. 

For over 20 years the structures of /8-dicarbonyl compounds have been determined by X-ray, electron and neutron diffraction and microwave spectroscopy. Agreement as to how the data should be interpreted has led to centred and non-centred hydrogen bonds being proposed for the same substance. In almost all cases the cis enol is the stable tautomer, but in 1971 Karle et al.71 reported the structure of AA, in both this and the diketo form, by electron diffraction. 

Despite many advances in analytical methods in recent years, the structural characterization of materials that only occur as microcrystals less than about 30 l in diameter remains difficult and laborious. High resolution electron microscopy in the lattice imaging mode is by far the most powerful tool in giving the direct evidence of structural details essential for modelling clues, as has been demonstrated in the cases of recent zeolite structure solutions of theta-l/ZSM-23 (26) and beta (27), in addition to ECR-1. X-ray diffraction methods provide the essential confirmatory data, and sorption molecular probing and various well established spectroscopic methods are useful ancillary tools. 

The publication, in 1995, of the crystal structure of recombinant pAPX (Patterson and Poulos, 1995) was arguably the single most important contribution to the area in recent years. The structure provided a dichotomy of... 

The concept of atomic or ionic size is one that has been debated for many years. The structure map of Figure 1 used the crystal radii of Shannon and Prewitt and these are generally used today in place of Pauling s radii. Shannon and Prewitt s values come from examination of a large database of interatomic distances, assuming that intemuclear separations are given simply by the sum of anion and cation radii. Whereas this is reasonably frue for oxides and fluorides, it is much more difficult to generate a self-consistent set of radii for sulfides, for example. A set of radii independent of experimental input would be better. The pseudopotential radius is one such estimate of atomic or orbital size. 

The structure, however, is not static but is subject to thermally driven fluctuations. The local structure changes continuously as a function of time due to orientational and translational molecular motions. The time scale of these motions may range from nanoseconds up to several hundred years. The structure of the amorphous state as well as its time-dependent fluctuations can be analysed by various scattering techniques, such as X-ray, neutron, electron and light scattering. 

The formation of lyotropic liquid-crystal mesophase depends on the structure and properties of surfactant, solvent, and reaction conditions. Although studies on lyotropical liquid crystals have been carried out for many years, the structure and properties of some mesophases are still not very clear. Since lyotropic liquid crystals rely on a subtle balance of intermolecular interactions, it is difficult to analyse their structures and properties, the boundary in the phase diagram may be not accurate and the minor phase may be missed. 

For many years the structural analysis for assigning VS and CS was carried out by hand for simple nets but nowadays it can be performed computationally with the use of computer programs such as TOPOS [14, 15, 30]. This program gives VS... 

The banning of lead chromate pigments has resulted in an enormous demand for yellow azo pigments as replacements. Pigment Yellow 74 (XXX) has become important as such a replacement in the past 10 years. The structure is written in the hydrazone form. There has been evidence over recent years that this is the preferred tautomeric form of these types of pigments in the solid state (39-41) versus the more commonly shown azo form (XXXl). 

QM theory has been applied to studies of several other oxide surfaces in recent years. The structure of the low index surfaces of AI2O3 has been computed within PW-LDA theory (Manassidis and Gillan, 1994), which predicts a very large relaxation of the basal plane surface (0001). Studies of this surface have been extended to the adsorption of niobium atoms (Kruse et al., 1994) and of complex organic molecules (Frank et al., 1995). 

With Woodward, synthesis assumed a sophistication previously unknown, and targets such as quinine (5, with von E. Doering and co-workers), cortisone (6), strychnine (7), and reserpine (8) were synthesized (along with many other molecules). Over these years, the structural and stereochemical features of the targets increased in complexity. As more complex structures were targeted, the newly acquired ability to control stereochemical features and chiral centers led to greater synthetic achievements. Corey formalized the... 

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