Ionization of dimethyluracil dimers leads to facile proton transfer in the absence of hydrogen bonds

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 323-329

  Golan, Amir ^a,c   Bravaya, Ksenia B ^b   Kudirka, Romas ^a   Kostko, Oleg ^a   Leone, Stephen R ^a,c   Krylov, Anna I ^b   Ahmed, Musahid ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3 DIMETHYLURACIL; 1,3-DIMETHYLURACIL; DEUTERIUM; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ION; PROTON; URACIL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; HYDROGEN BOND; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

DEUTERIUM; DIMERIZATION; HYDROGEN BONDING; IONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTONS; URACIL;

EID: 84858785931     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1298     Document Type: Article

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