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DNA as a Versatile Chemical Component for Catalysis, Encoding, and Stereocontrol
Author(s) -
Silverman Scott K.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200906345
Subject(s) - dna , computational biology , encoding (memory) , component (thermodynamics) , nanotechnology , key (lock) , biology , chemistry , genetics , biochemical engineering , materials science , engineering , neuroscience , physics , thermodynamics , ecology
Abstract DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the genetic material common to all of Earth’s organisms. Our biological understanding of DNA is extensive and well‐exploited. In recent years, chemists have begun to develop DNA for nonbiological applications in catalysis, encoding, and stereochemical control. This Review summarizes key advances in these three exciting research areas, each of which takes advantage of a different subset of DNA’s useful chemical properties.