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Production, Crystallization, and Structure Determination of the IKK-binding Domain of NEMO
Published on: December 28, 2019
Crystal structure of nicotinamide ethyl-ene glycol hemisolvate
Tanapat Chunanant1, Peerapon Rapeenun1,2, Natthaphong Lertna1
1School of Energy Science and Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology, Rayong, 21210, Thailand.
Abstract:
In the title solvate, C6H6N2O·0.5C2H6O2, the asymmetric unit consists of one nicotinamide mol-ecule and half of an ethyl-ene glycol mol-ecule, which is completed by crystallographic inversion symmetry. The dihedral angle between the acetamide group and the pyridine ring is 21.9 (8)°. In the crystal, the components are linked by N-H⋯O and O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds into (102) sheets and weak offset π-π stacking is also observed. Hirshfeld surface analysis indicates that the most important contacts in the structure are H⋯H (42.9%), O⋯H/H⋯O (26.4%), C⋯H/H⋯C (10.6%) and N⋯H/H⋯N (9.2%).
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