Chiroptical Properties of Amino Acids: A density functional theory study

Symmetry

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 935-949

  Adrian Scotto, Martine ^a   Antonczak, Serge ^a   Bredehöft, Jan Hendrik ^b   Hoffmann, Søren ^c   Meierhenrich, Uwe J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ab initio calculations; Amino acids; Boltzman population analysis; Circular dichroism; DFT; Homochirality

Indexed keywords

EID: 78249252891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20738994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/sym2020934     Document Type: Article

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