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Modeling the hydrogen bonds, pi-stacking and solvent effects in DNA

In a recent paper in ChemComm, researchers in Spain and the Netherlands have used a combination of ADF features to unravel the factors behind the fidelity in chemical, template-assisted primer extension. The analyses therein, based...

Hydrogen bonds in guanine quartets: cooperative effects

The cooperative reinforcement between hydrogen bonds in Guanine quartets (G4) are not caused by resonance-assisted hydrogen bonding (RAHB). Extensive energy decomposition and Kohn-Sham MO and analyses by Fonseca Guerra (VU Amsterdam) et al. reveal that...