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ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA A-FOUNDATION AND ADVANCES
Volume 61, Issue -, Pages 314-320Publisher
INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
DOI: 10.1107/S0108767305005039
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Three X-ray data sets of the same D,L-serine crystal were measured at temperatures of 298, 100 and 20 K. These data were then evaluated using invarioms and the Hansen & Coppens aspherical-atom model. Multipole populations for invarioms, which are pseudoatoms that remain approximately invariant in an intermolecular transfer, were theoretically predicted using different density functional theorem (DFT) basis sets. The invariom parameters were kept fixed and positional and thermal parameters were refined to compare the fitting against the multi-temperature data at different resolutions. The deconvolution of thermal motion and electron density with respect to data resolution was studied by application of the Hirshfeld test. Above a resolution of sin theta/lambda approximate to 0.55 angstrom(-1), or d approximate to 0.9 angstrom, this test was fulfilled. When the Hirshfeld test is fulfilled, a successful modeling of the aspherical electron density with invarioms is achieved, which was proven by Fourier methods. Molecular geometry improves, especially for H atoms, when using the invariom method compared to the independent-atom model, as a comparison with neutron data shows. Based on this example, the general applicability of the invariom concept to organic molecules is proven and the aspherical density modeling of a larger biomacromolecule is within reach.
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