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Influence of Counterion Association on the Configurational Stability of Deoxyribonucleic Acid in Solution

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THERE is strong evidence that the double stranded helix proposed by Crick and Watson on the basis of the X-ray diffraction photograph of deoxyribonucleic acid fibres1 is present also in solution2.

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  1. Laboratorio Ricerche sulla Struttura e l'Attivita di Composti Chimici, Istituto di Chimica Farmaceutica Universita, Roma

    F. ASCOLI, C. BOTRE, V. CRESCENZI & A. MELE

  2. Istituto di Chimica Generale ed Inorganica, Universita di Bari,

    A. M. LIQUORI

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ASCOLI, F., BOTRE, C., CRESCENZI, V. et al. Influence of Counterion Association on the Configurational Stability of Deoxyribonucleic Acid in Solution. Nature 184, 1482–1483 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841482a0

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