Letter from Linus Pauling to Warren Chernock. November 21, 1950. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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  November 21, 1950

  Mr. Warren P. Chernock

  Argonne National Laboratory

  P.O. Box 5207

  Chicago 80, Illinois

  Dear Mr. Chernock:

  The determination of the structure of the sigma phase mentioned in your letter was made by Dr. David Shoemaker and Mr. Gunnar Bergman in our laboratories. A note about it will appear in the December issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and a detailed paper will be published sometime next year.

  I enclose a copy of the note. I may say that I believe the crystals used were iron-chromium crystals, selected from a powder obtained by annealing the alloy at a temperature somewhat under 900°. We have at hand powder x-ray data for sigma phases from a number of other alloy systems, and I believe that Dr. Shoemaker and Mr. Bergman will include the powder data, with the lines indexed, in their detailed paper.

  If there is other information that you would like to have, you might write directly to Dr. Shoemaker, at this address.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

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  11-21-50

  To: Professor Pauling

  From: Walt Schroeder

  Subject: Number of Isoleucine Residues Per Molecule of Hemoglobin

  In the paper which described the analysis of hemoglobins, we stated that the minimum molecular weight of both proteins must be about 67,000 because there is only one isoleucine residue per molecule of thus weight but we did not comment further on this point.

  Recently, I have wondered whether we should not have called more attention to this fact because it does not show that in human Hb any dissociation by urea or in very dilute solution must result in dissimilar fragments. Dr. Corey and I think that a short to the JACS which stresses this result might be worthwhile.

  However, in looking up literature for this note I have been unable to find any statement which suggests that hemoglobin might disassociate into identical fragments of half or quarter molecular weight or that the molecule might contain four identical peptide chains & coincide with the four hemes although both Dr. Corey and I fell that we have heard or read such statements.

  Do you think that such a note would be advisable and are you aware of any published statements such as I have described?

  Walt