Structure and photoinduced electron transfer in exceptionally stable synthetic DNA hairpins with stilbenediether linkers [18]

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 121, Issue 42, 1999, Pages 9905-9906

  Lewis, Frederick D ^a   Liu, Xiaoyang ^a   Wu, Yangsheng ^a   Miller, Scott E ^a   Wasielewski, Michael R ^a   Letsinger, Robert L ^a   Sanishvili, Ruslan ^b   Joachimiak, Andrzej ^b   Tereshko, Valentina ^c   Egli, Martin ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ETHER DERIVATIVE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; STILBENE DERIVATIVE;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LETTER;

EID: 13044304196     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja991934u     Document Type: Letter

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