There are three diastereomers, two of which I think work. The meso compound, however supposedly does not freeze clear. Hampton sells two of these in their kit, but doesn't specify the stereochemistry of one of them.
http://hamptonresearch.com/product_detail.aspx?cid=30&sid=189&pid=30 William Ho On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Ulrike Demmer <ulrike.dem...@biophys.mpg.de> wrote: > Dear CCP4BB-users, > > thanks so far for sharing your experience with Butanediol. But is it > important to use a specific enantiomer ? Are you all only using > 2R3R-Butanediol which is quite expensive ? > > Ulrike >