Solid-state 17O NMR of thymine: a potential new probe to nucleic acid base pairing

24 April 2001

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications

No. 10,p. 891-892
https://doi.org/10.1039/b100337m

Abstract

We report the first experimental solid-state ¹⁷O NMR and theoretical (B3LYP/6-311++G**) study of the ¹⁷O electric-field-gradient and chemical shielding tensors in a free nucleic acid base, thymine.

Keywords

STATE 17O
17O NMR
THYMINE
NUCLEIC ACID BASE
EXPERIMENTAL
ELECTRIC

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