Quantum Chemical Benchmark Study on 46 RNA Backbone Families Using a Dinucleotide Unit

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4972-4991

  Kruse, Holger ^a,b   Mladek, Arnost ^a   Gkionis, Konstantinos ^a,b   Hansen, Andreas ^c   Grimme, Stefan ^c   Sponer, Jiri ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; QUANTUM THEORY;

NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; QUANTUM THEORY; RNA;

EID: 84944239723     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00515     Document Type: Article

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