Anisotropy spectra for enantiomeric differentiation of biomolecular building blocks

Topics in Current Chemistry

Volumn 341, Issue , 2013, Pages 271-299

  Evans, A C ^a,b   Meinert, C ^a   Bredehoft J H ^c   Giri, C ^a,d   Jones, N C ^e   Hoffmann, S V ^e   Meierhenrich, U J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Anisotropy spectroscopy; Chirality; Circular dichroism; Circularly polarized radiation; COSAC; ROSETTA

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BIOPOLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; METHODOLOGY; STEREOISOMERISM; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOPOLYMERS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 84897012608     PISSN: 03401022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/128-2013-442     Document Type: Article

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