On the treatment of conformational flexibility when using residual dipolar couplings for structure determination

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 48, Issue 36, 2009, Pages 6708-6712

  Thiele, Christina M ^a   Schmidts, Volker ^a   Böttcher, Benjamin ^a   Louzao, Iria ^a   Berger, Robert ^b   Maliniak, Arnold ^c,d   Stevensson, Baltzar ^c,d  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Eckart conditions; Motional averaging; NMR spectroscopy; Residual dipolar coupling; Structure elucidation

Indexed keywords

ECKART CONDITIONS; MOTIONAL AVERAGING; NMR SPECTROSCOPY; RESIDUAL DIPOLAR COUPLING; STRUCTURE ELUCIDATION;

CONFORMATIONS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; TENSORS;

FLEXIBLE COUPLINGS;

ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; STEREOISOMERISM;

ACYL-BUTYROLACTONES; ETHYLENES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 70349778983     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200902398     Document Type: Article

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