Gas-phase spectroscopy of biomolecular building blocks

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 585-612

  De Vries, Mattanjah S ^a   Hobza, Pavel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Biomolecules; Computational chemistry; Jet cooling; REMPI; Spectral hole burning

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DNA; HYDROGEN BONDS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BIOMOLECULAR BUILDING BLOCKS; COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; GAS-PHASE SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRAL HOLE BURNING;

BIOMOLECULES;

AMINO ACID; DNA; PEPTIDE;

CHEMISTRY; GAS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACIDS; DNA; GASES; PEPTIDES; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 34249939259     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physchem.57.032905.104722     Document Type: Article

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