The importance of electron correlation on stacking interaction of adenine-thymine base-pair step in B-DNA: A quantum Monte Carlo study

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1081-1086

  Hongo, Kenta ^a   Cuong, Nguyen Thanh ^b   Maezono, Ryo ^a  

^a JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

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EID: 84873620014     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct301065f     Document Type: Article

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