On the Aromatic Character of the Heterocyclic Bases of DNA and RNA

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 68, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 8607-8613

  Cyrański, Michał K ^a   Gilski, Mirosław ^b,c   Jaskólski, Mariusz ^b,c   Krygowski, Tadeusz Marek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HYDROGEN BONDS; RNA;

HETEROCYCLIC BASES;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA BASE; GUANINE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; RNA; THYMINE; URACIL;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; AROMA; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DATA BASE; HYDROGEN BOND; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; QUANTUM THEORY; STEREOISOMERISM;

ADENINE; BASE PAIRING; CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; QUANTUM THEORY; RNA; STEREOISOMERISM; THYMINE; URACIL;

EID: 18244422457     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo034760e     Document Type: Article

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