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SUBMITTER: Butcher RJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3885077 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Butcher Ray J RJ Brewer Greg G Burton Aaron S AS Burton Aaron S AS Dworkin Jason P JP
Acta crystallographica. Section E, Structure reports online 20131127 Pt 12
The title compound, C5H11NO2·H2O, is an isomer of the α-amino acid valine that crystallizes from water in its zwitterion form as a monohydrate. It is not one of the 20 proteinogenic amino acids that are used in living systems and differs from the natural amino acids in that it has no α-H atom. The compound exhibits hydrogen bonding between the water mol-ecule and the carboxyl-ate O atoms and an amine H atom. In addition, there are inter-molecular hydrogen-bonding inter-actions between the carbox ...[more]