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Sequence-specific Labeling of Nucleic Acids and Proteins with Methyltransferases and Cofactor Analogues
Published on: November 22, 2014
(S)-(-)-Methyl 2-(p-tolyl-sulfon-yloxy)-propanoate
Wei Chen1, Shan Liu, Qing-Yan Chu
1Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing 210009, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In the title compound, C(11)H(14)O(5)S, there is an intra-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bond, for which the C-C-S-O torsion angle involving the acceptor and donor atoms is 2.4 (4)°. The dihedral angle between the benzene ring and the methoxy-carbonyl plane is 52.7 (4)°. In the crystal structure, mol-ecules are linked via inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming a mol-ecular chain along the b axis.
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