From: Richard M Thomas <rthomas@ifp.mat.ethz.ch>
  To  : rasmb@bbri.harvard.edu
  Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 12:24:16 +0200

Effect of TFE

Good afternoon, everyone,
Just a thought -
Despite its mystical ability to turn just about anything into an alpha
helix, TFE suffers from the fact that its density is high - ca. 1.4. This
complicates all sorts of things and, in  particular, makes it difficult to
obtain useful UC data at high TFE concentrations. This is particularly true
for small peptides.
Cheers
Richard

Dr Richard M Thomas
Inst. für Polymere
ETH-Zentrum
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Switzerland
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