On the enhanced stability of the guanine-cytosine base-pair radical cation

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 118, Issue 32, 1996, Pages 7574-7577

  Hutter, Michael ^a   Clark, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA STRUCTURE; DRUG STABILITY;

EID: 0029738866     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja953370+     Document Type: Article

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