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Figure 3
Structures of salen ligand (a)–(c), biotin (d)–(f), and thio­strepton (g)–(i) determined from EBEC MicroED data collected with different incident electron beam fluences. For both salen ligand and biotin mol­ecules, shown are ORTEP diagrams and 3D models with the Fo density map contoured at 2σ. Single crystals were exposed to a total fluence of 0.5 [2°/s rotation, 2 integrated frames/s, 0.01 e−/Å2/s flux density, parts (a), (d), and (g)], 3.33 [0.3°/s rotation, 0.3 integrated frames/s, 0.01 e−/Å2/s flux density, parts (b), (e), and (h)], and 2.25 e−/Å2 [2°/s rotation, 2 integrated frames/s, 0.045 e−/Å2/s flux density, parts (c), (f), and (i)]. H atoms were included in the refinement and are displayed in the ORTEP diagrams, but were excluded from ball-and-stick models for clarity. Atomic B factors were refined anisotropically when possible, as was permitted for the 3.33 e−/Å2 fluence trials on the salen ligand and biotin, and the 2.25 e−/Å2 fluence trial on the salen ligand. Likewise, higher fluence generally allowed for greater accuracy in bond lengths for these com­pounds. Structures of thio­strepton are drawn as green models with superimposed blue 2Fo–Fc maps contoured at 1.8σ. Each is determined from a single crystal to 2.0 Å [part (g)], 1.5 Å [part (h)], and 1.8 Å resolution [part (i)]. Beneath each is the same model (cyan) superimposed with a green Fo–Fc map at 3σ, calculated from rigid-body refinement of the measured data against a poly-alanine model of thio­strepton. The clearest definition for side chains in the electrostatic potential map, and likewise the most prominent Fo–Fc density in the poly-alanine trial, was achieved with the highest fluence, the 3.33 e−/Å2 condition.

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