Aspects of weak interactions
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Society Reviews
- Vol. 27 (1), 57-64
- https://doi.org/10.1039/a827057z
Abstract
Weak interactions, such as those non-covalent interactions that occur in biological systems, are less well characterised than their strong, covalent counterparts. Here, we discuss associations between two or more molecules and consider the effect of interactions with solvent molecules (particularly water) and changes in the internal structure of the associating molecules on binding. We go on to discuss some of the progress that has been made in the estimation of binding constants.Keywords
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