Aromatic interactions in model systems

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 736-741

  Waters, Marcey L ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND; PEPTIDE; SOLVENT; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; DNA;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; ELECTRICITY; GEOMETRY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; REVIEW; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACIDS, AROMATIC; DNA; ELECTROSTATICS; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SOLVENTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0036897848     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-5931(02)00359-9     Document Type: Review

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