Comments on: The handedness of DNA: an unheralded connection.

By: Confirming the Fischer convention as a structurally correct representation of absolute configuration. « Henry Rzepa

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:57:52 +0000

[...] result has become the more famous, perhaps because Bijvoet’s result was mentioned early on by Watson and Crick in their own very famous 1953 publication of the helical structure of DNA. They do not mention [...]

By: Ferrocene « Henry Rzepa

Ferrocene « Henry Rzepa — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:04:47 +0000

[...] in 1952 (DOI: 10.1021/ja01128a527), symmetrically straddled in history by Pauling (1951) and Watson and Crick (1953). Quite a trio of Nobel-prize winning molecular structural analyses, all based on a large [...]

By: Why are α-helices in proteins mostly right handed? « Henry Rzepa

Why are α-helices in proteins mostly right handed? « Henry Rzepa — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:52:34 +0000

[...] absolute handedness of amino acids (which are (S) in CIP terminology). This had in fact only been established a few months before Pauling’s publication by Bijvoet, and news of this might not have [...]

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Henry Rzepa — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:19:37 +0000

Watson and Crick assigned their famous helix as a right handed one. Two years earlier, Pauling had pondered the handedness of helices in proteins. He got it wrong!

By: A short history of molecular modelling: 1860-1890. « Henry Rzepa

A short history of molecular modelling: 1860-1890. « Henry Rzepa — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:57:06 +0000

[...] 1860-1890. In 1953, the model of the DNA molecule led to what has become regarded as the most famous scientific diagram of the 20th century. It had all started in 1860, at a time when the [...]

By: Is there a difference between a scientific blog and scientific journal? « Henry Rzepa

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:59:32 +0000

[...] a hole for myself by implying this blog is full of such stuff? I do hope not! Take for example this post, in which I tried to establish what I (perhaps mistakenly) thought was an undeservedly [...]

By: A comparison of left and right handed DNA double-helix models. « Henry Rzepa

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:28:43 +0000

[...] in their original full article (or the particular base-pairs which led to the observation). This follow-up to my earlier post explores this aspect, using a computer [...]

By: The melting points from benzene to cyclohexane: a prime example of dispersion forces in action? « Henry Rzepa

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:41:24 +0000

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