%0 Journal Article %J Chemical Communications %D 2009 %T Effect of chirality of L/D-proline and prochiral glycine as the linker amino acid in five-atom linked thymidinyl-(alpha-aminoacid)-thymidine dimers %A Seema Bagmare %A D'Costa, Moneesha %A Kumar, Vaijayanti A. %X

The chirality of the amide linker in dimer blocks was found to have a profound effect on the orientation of base stacking interactions as studied by CD and NMR spectroscopy.

%B Chemical Communications %I ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY %C THOMAS GRAHAM HOUSE, SCIENCE PARK, MILTON RD, CAMBRIDGE CB4 0WF, CAMBS, ENGLAND %P 6646-6648 %8 SEP %G eng %N 43 %3 Foreign %4 5.787 %R 10.1039/b913546d