Hi, Phil,
Is it right to model the whole ligand molecule to the anomalous difference
map? For some sites, the overlap between anomalous difference and
difference map is small, while the anomalous difference or difference map
itself is rather big. The anomalous difference is way bigger than a single
Br can be.
Thanks!
Charles
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Phil Jeffrey
In your first sentence your meaning of "difference map" is: ( F_obs - F_calc ), phases
For an anomalous difference map you're calculating: ( F(+) - F(-) ), phases-90
So you would still expect to see a peak in the anomalous difference map in the presence of the anomalous scatterer since you are not subtracting off its contribution to the scattering.
There probably would be (very) small differences in the phases dependent on whether you explicitly model the Br as an anomalous scatterer or not but I have never experimented to see if that makes a small impact on an anomalous difference map.
Cheers, Phil Jeffrey Princeton
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