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SUBMITTER: Belo EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5755572 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Belo Ezequiel A EA Pereira Jose E M JEM Freire Paulo T C PTC Argyriou Dimitri N DN Eckert Juergen J Bordallo Heloisa N HN
IUCrJ 20180101 Pt 1
Enantiomeric amino acids have specific physiological functions in complex biological systems. Systematic studies focusing on the solid-state properties of d-amino acids are, however, still limited. To shed light on this field, structural and spectroscopic studies of d-alanine using neutron powder diffraction, polarized Raman scattering and <i>ab initio</i> calculations of harmonic vibrational frequencies were carried out. Clear changes in the number of vibrational modes are observed as a functio ...[more]