Relaxation Dynamics of the Triazene Compound Berenil in DNA-Minor-Groove Confinement after Photoexcitation
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1549-9618,1549-9626
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00489