view article

Figure 1 The mol­ecular structure of β-DL-me­thio­nine at 320 K, with atom labelling, flanked by the structures at 105 K (published with the alternative space group setting I2/a, Alagar et al., 2005; Görbitz, 2014) and 340 K (Görbitz et al., 2014). Thermal displacement ellipsoids are shown at the 50% probability level. Atoms of the minor side-chain conformation with occupancy 0.0491 (18) at 340 K (with H atoms omitted) are shown in a lighter tone. The side-chain conformation is gauche–, trans, trans (as defined by the N1—C2—C3—C4, C2—C3—C4—S1 and C3—C4—S1—C5 torsion angles of the L-enanti­omer shown) at 105 and 320 K, while the major and minor conformations at 340 K are gauche–, trans, gauche+ and gaucsu5129.cif he+, trans, gauche+, respectively.

Journal logoCRYSTALLOGRAPHIC
COMMUNICATIONS
ISSN: 2056-9890
Follow Acta Cryst. E
Sign up for e-alerts
Follow Acta Cryst. on Twitter
Follow us on facebook
Sign up for RSS feeds