Quantum Mechanical-Molecular Mechanical Approaches for Studying Chemical Reactions in Proteins and Solution

ACS Symposium Series

Volumn 712, Issue , 1998, Pages 16-34

  Bentzien, Jörg ^a   Florián, Jan ^a   Glennon, Timothy M ^a   Warshel, Arieh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0345913518     PISSN: 00976156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1021/bk-1998-0712.ch002     Document Type: Article

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