Theoretical investigation of the coupling between hydrogen-atom transfer and stacking interaction in adenine-thymine

Giovanni Villani1

  • 1Istituto di Chimica dei Composti OrganoMetallici, ICCOM-UOS Pisa, Area della Ricerca del CNR, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy. villani@pi.iccom.cnr.it

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