Lone pair-aromatic interactions: To stabilize or not to stabilize

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 197-205

  Egli, Martin ^a   Sarkhel, Sanjay ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC AMINO ACID; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; CARBON; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; HYDROGEN BOND; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACIDS, AROMATIC; CARBON; DNA; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; HYDROGEN BONDING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 34147213661     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar068174u     Document Type: Article

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