A chiral spherical molecular assembly held together by 60 hydrogen bonds

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6650, 1997, Pages 469-472

  MacGillivray, Leonard R ^a   Atwood, Jerry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; COVALENT BOND; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030801236     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/38985     Document Type: Article

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