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Polymer Backbone Conformation—A Challenging Task for Database Information Retrieval
Author(s) -
Seebach Dieter,
Zass Engelbert,
Schweizer W. Bernd,
Thompson Amber J.,
French Alister,
Davis Benjamin G.,
Kyd Gwenda,
Bruno Ian J.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200904422
Subject(s) - task (project management) , computer science , information retrieval , engineering , systems engineering
Look again : The X‐ray single crystals structure determination of polyethylene glycol chains reported at the beginning of 2009 was not the first X‐ray structure. The fact that old fiber and freeze‐dried structure reports from the 1960s were overlooked points out weak spots in searches of chemical and crystallographic databases.