Inverse Temperature Dependence of Nuclear Quantum Effects in DNA Base Pairs

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2125-2131

  Fang, Wei ^a,b   Chen, Ji ^a,b   Rossi, Mariana ^c   Feng, Yexin ^d   Li, Xin Zheng ^e   Michaelides, Angelos ^a,b  

^a LONDON CENTRE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINS; BOND STRENGTH (CHEMICAL); BOND STRENGTH (MATERIALS); COMPLEXATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; HIGH-FREQUENCY VIBRATIONAL MODES; HYDROGEN BONDED SYSTEMS; HYDROGEN-BONDED COMPLEXES; INVERSE TEMPERATURES; NUCLEAR QUANTUM EFFECTS; PATH-INTEGRAL MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

HYDROGEN BONDS;

DNA;

BASE PAIRING; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY;

BASE PAIRING; DNA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84973571901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00777     Document Type: Article

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