The relevance of chirality in space group analysis: A database study of common hydrogen-bonding motifs and their symmetry preferences
Abstract
Datasets of common hydrogen bonding motifs have been generated using the functionality available in the Materials Module of Mercury 2.0. These datasets were divided on the grounds of space group type (centrosymmetric, Sohncke and non-centrosymmetric/non-Sohncke) and chirality. Comparisons of the populations of the subsets revealed interesting correlations between motif symmetry and space group population.