The electron affinities of deprotonated adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil, and thymine

Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 506-524

  Chen, Edward C M ^a   Wiley, John R ^b   Chen, Edward S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anion photoelectron spectra; Electron affinity; Gas phase acidity; Negative ion mass spectrometry; Purines and pyrimidines

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; THYMINE; URACIL;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DISSOCIATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; ELECTRONS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GASES; GUANINE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTONS; PURINES; PYRIMIDINES; THERMODYNAMICS; THYMINE; URACIL;

EID: 45849133435     PISSN: 15257770     EISSN: 15322335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15257770802088985     Document Type: Article

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