Tunable recognition of the steroid α-face by adjacent π-electron density

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 30, 2010, Pages 13216-13221

  Friscic T ^a   Lancaster, R W ^b   Fabian L ^c   Karamertzanis, P G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CAMBRIDGE CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DATA CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crystal structure prediction; Mechanosynthesis; Molecular recognition; Steroids

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; HYDROCARBON; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; SOLVENT; STEROID;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY; ELECTRON; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID STATE; SOLUBILITY; SPECTROSCOPY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STEROID BINDING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PROCEDURES;

ELECTRONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; STEROIDS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 77955803260     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0915142107     Document Type: Article

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