Enantioselective sulfoxidation reaction catalyzed by a G-quadruplex DNA metalloenzyme

Mingpan Cheng1, Yinghao Li1, Jun Zhou2

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China. canli@dicp.ac.cn and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing, 100049, China.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 1, 2016
PubMed

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