Bob, Yes, Be salts are wildly toxic. They are also useful in structural studies on enzymes that perform phosphoryl transfers, almost always as beryllium fluoride complexes. The PDB contains about 200 such structures.
Craig On Apr 1, 2019, at 9:37 PM, Sweet, Robert <000027e0eb9d20ec-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk<mailto:000027e0eb9d20ec-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk>> wrote: With all respect, this conversation make my skin crawl a little. I've been taught that beryllium salts are EXTREMELY toxic. Please study this: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/beryllium_chloride ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
