title: Epitaxial crystallization of alkane chain lipids for electron diffraction analysis.
abstract: Thin microcrystals of a wide variety of polymethylene chain materials, including n-alkanes, linear waxes, glycerides, a detergent, phospholipids and phospholipid analogs based on cyclopentane-1,2,3-triol, are epitaxially grown on naphthalene to give an orientation with long chain axes parallel to the best developed crystal face. These crystals, which represent a different orientation than those grown from solution, facilitate ab initio quantitative crystal structure analysis from electron diffraction intensity data from the projection yielding the most crystallographic information.
mesh_terms: D000473:Alkanes; D003460:Crystallization; D003461:Crystallography / Q000379:methods; D008055:Lipids; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
chemical_list: D000473:Alkanes; D008055:Lipids