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Hydrogen‐Bond Strength of CC and GG Pairs Determined by Steric Repulsion: Electrostatics and Charge Transfer Overruled
Author(s) -
van der Lubbe Stephanie C. C.,
Fonseca Guerra Célia
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201702441
Subject(s) - steric effects , hydrogen bond , electrostatics , chemistry , charge (physics) , cover (algebra) , computational chemistry , crystallography , chemical physics , stereochemistry , molecule , physics , quantum mechanics , organic chemistry , engineering , mechanical engineering
Invited for the cover of this issue are Stephanie C. C. van der Lubbe and Célia Fonseca Guerra at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and at Leiden University. The image depicts the importance of steric repulsion in hydrogen bonds between two base pairs and has implications in understanding and predicting the hydrogen bonding mechanism. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.201701821.