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ArticleACS central science2018

The CryoEM Method MicroED as a Powerful Tool for Small Molecule Structure Determination.

Christopher G Jones, Michael W Martynowycz, Johan Hattne, Tyler J Fulton, Brian M Stoltz, Jose A Rodriguez, Hosea M Nelson, Tamir Gonen

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Article in ACS central science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 205 papers.

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205 citing papers in PubMed.

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8 authors.

Christopher G JonesDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, Departments of Biological Chemistry and Physiology, and UCLA-DOE Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
Michael W MartynowyczDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, Departments of Biological Chemistry and Physiology, and UCLA-DOE Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
Johan HattneDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, Departments of Biological Chemistry and Physiology, and UCLA-DOE Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
Tyler J FultonThe Warren and Katharine Schlinger Laboratory of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States.
Brian M StoltzThe Warren and Katharine Schlinger Laboratory of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States.
Jose A RodriguezDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, Departments of Biological Chemistry and Physiology, and UCLA-DOE Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
Hosea M NelsonDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, Departments of Biological Chemistry and Physiology, and UCLA-DOE Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
Tamir GonenDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, Departments of Biological Chemistry and Physiology, and UCLA-DOE Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.

Funding

Kinetically-Persistent Carbocationsin C-H Insertion Reactions and Biomimetic Cyclization CascadesR35GM128936 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI NELSON, HOSEA MARTIN · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM128936
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the many scientific endeavors that are driven by organic chemistry, unambiguous identification of small molecules is of paramount importance. Over the past 50 years, NMR and other powerful spectroscopic techniques have been developed to address this challenge. While almost all of these techniques rely on inference of connectivity, the unambiguous determination of a small molecule's structure requires X-ray and/or neutron diffraction studies. In practice, however, X-ray crystallography is rarely applied in routine organic chemistry due to intrinsic limitations of both the analytes and the technique. Here we report the use of the electron cryo-microscopy (cryoEM) method microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED) to provide routine and unambiguous structural determination of small organic molecules. From simple powders, with minimal sample preparation, we could collect high-quality MicroED data from nanocrystals (∼100 nm, ∼10

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