[ccp4bb] Eleven plausible phasing elements remain unused

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From: Thomas Womack twomack {- at -} GLOBALPHASING {- dot -} COM
Date: 2009-04-01

A perusal of the PDB reveals that the game of Periodic Table bingo still
has eleven rounds to run:

scandium, titanium, germanium, zirconium, niobium, neodymium,
dysprosium, thulium, hafnium, bismuth and thorium remain absent from PDB
entries.

OK, many of these are elements that would rather be refractory oxides or
jet-engine components than hexammines, and niobium chloride clusters
don't seem to be as water-stable as Ta6Br14, but why have neodymium,
dysprosium and thulium so consistently been left out there in the cold
rather than admitted to the warmish embrace of carboxyl groups? There
must somewhere be a protein with a site that cries out for ThCl2(2+), an
unexpectedly water-stable cation.

Tom

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