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Crystallizing Membrane Proteins for Structure Determination using Lipidic Mesophases
Published on: November 21, 2010
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R Manohar1, M Harikrishna2, S Harikrishna Etti3
1Centre of Advanced Study in Crystallography and Biophysics, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai 600 025, India.
Abstract:
In the title compound, C19H15Cl6NO4 [+solvent], the six-membered ring of the norbornene moiety adopts a boat conformation and the two five-membered rings have envelope conformations. The pyrrolidine ring makes a dihedral angle of 14.83 (12)° with the 3,4-di-meth-oxy-phenyl ring, which are attached to each other by an extended N-CH2-CH2-Car bridge. In the crystal, the structure features C-H⋯O inter-molecular hydrogen bonds, an offset π-π inter-action [inter-centroid distance = 3.564 (1) Å] and a C-Cl⋯π inter-action. The contribution of some disordered solvent to the scattering was removed using the SQUEEZE routine [Spek (2015 ▸). Acta Cryst. C71, 9-18] of PLATON. The solvent contribution was not included in the reported mol-ecular weight and density.
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