CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND CONFORMATION OF CYCLO‐L‐CYSTINE

Abstract
X‐ray crystallographic investigations on cyclo‐l‐cystine show that the diketo‐piperazine ring is in a twisted boat form and the C‐S‐S‐C bridge across the Cα atoms has a negative chirality with χ3 angle of — 94°. The two peptides are significantly nonplanar with the ω values of — 10° and — 16°. The crystals are orthorhombic, space group P212121 with a = 11.216(4), b = 12.874(4), c = 5.978(3) and Z = 4. The structure was solved by heavy atom method and refined to an R index of 0.065.

This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit: