“…By cornparison, the corresponding O(C)-P-O(C) bond angle in a six-membered cyclic phosphate system, namely the nucleotide uridine 3', 5'-monophosphate (Coulter, 1969), was found to be 103.1 ° (average of two values). In acyclic systems, O(C)-P-O(C) bond angles are in general very close to this value, as can be seen for trisp-nitrophenyl phosphate, 103.1 ° (average of three angles) (Mazhar-ul-Haque & Caughlan, 1970); bis-pnitrophenyl phosphate (procaine complex), 103.3 ° (Sax, Pletcher & Gustaffson, 1970); dibenzylphosphoric acid, 103.8 ° (Dunitz & Rollett, 1956); L-c~-glycerylphosphorylcholin, 103.1 ° (Abrahamsson & Pascher, 1966); and triphenyl phosphate, 101.5 ° (average of two values) (Svetich & Caughlan, 1965). The value of 108.1 o reported for bis-p-chlorophenyl phosphate (Calleri & Speakman, 1964) appears to be above the normal range.…”