Chapter 9 Applications and Advances of QM/MM Methods in Computational Enzymology

Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 155-169

  Lodola, Alessio ^a   Woods, Christopher J ^b   Mulholland, Adrian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

catalysis; enzyme; free energy; kinetics; QM MM

Indexed keywords

EID: 54849436236     PISSN: 15741400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-1400(08)00009-1     Document Type: Chapter

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