Ramachandran plot for alanine dipeptide as determined from raman optical activity

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 2763-2768

  Parchaňský, Václav ^a,b   Kapitán, Josef ^c   Kaminský, Jakub ^a   Šebestík, Jaroslav ^a   Bouř, Petr ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

alanine dipeptide; density functional theory; molecular dynamics; peptide folding; Ramachandran plot; Raman optical activity

Indexed keywords

ALANINE DIPEPTIDES; CONFORMATIONAL DISTRIBUTION; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; PEPTIDE FOLDING; QUANTUM CHEMICAL COMPUTATIONS; RAMACHANDRAN PLOT; RAMAN OPTICAL ACTIVITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

AMINO ACIDS; CONFORMATIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PEPTIDES; POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 84882327790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz401366j     Document Type: Article

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