Re: [ccp4bb]: thorium

[Laurence Pearl <laurence@icr.ac.uk>]

I think one reason is that it is very hard to buy it anywhere - there are several useful reagents that appear in older textbooks (e.g. Blundell and Johnson) such as UF6 salts that are no longer available. Maybe somebody knows better ??

On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 01:00 , Marie-Laure Chesne wrote:

> Dear crystallographers,
>
> I search informations about tests with thorium as a derivative agent
> for protein crystallography.
> It seems that TPA have already be tried, but i can't find any reference about this.
> Does anyone know more about this trial and do you know exactly why thorium
> is not used finally as a derivative agent ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Marie-Laure Chesne
>
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