Examining the Assumptions Underlying Continuum-Solvent Models

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4593-4600

  Harris, Robert C ^a   Pettitt, B Montgomery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; SOLVENT;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEINS; SOLVENTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84944226631     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00684     Document Type: Article

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