Searching for Nucleic Acid Alternatives

Chemical Synthetic Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5-45

  Eschenmoser, Albert ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

L arabino pyranosyl system, oligonucleotide type Watson Crick pairing systems; Comparing properties of molecules of unknown with already known constitution; Nucleic acid alternative capacity informational Watson Crick nucleobase pairing; Nucleic acids searching for nucleic acid alternatives; Organic and medicinal chemistry laboratories search for nucleic acid analogs; Qualitative conformational analysis, of oligonucleotide and oligomer systems idealized conformation method; Search for primordial genetic systems landscape of nucleobase tagged oligodipeptides; Six bond periodicity, in oligonucleotides and oligo dipeptamidinium salts; Structure's potential for constitutional self assembly

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863632119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470977873.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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