Issue 23, 1998

Difluorotoluene, a thymine isostere, does not hydrogen bond after all

Abstract

The lack of significant hydrogen bonding by 2,4-difluorotoluene, an isostere of thymine, is confirmed by ab initio calculations and force field modelling of nucleic acids.

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Chem. Commun., 1998, 2631-2632

Difluorotoluene, a thymine isostere, does not hydrogen bond after all

X. Wang and K. N. Houk, Chem. Commun., 1998, 2631 DOI: 10.1039/A807425I

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