Quantum mechanical calculations of NMR chemical shifts in nucleic acids

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 1987, Pages 113-172

  Giessner Prettre, C ^a   Pullman, B ^a  

^a France   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

CONFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM THEORY; REVIEW;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0023446611     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: 14698994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033583500004169     Document Type: Article

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