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Analysis of inelastic neutron scattering results on model compounds of the nitrogenous bases of the nucleotides

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The role that model compounds can play in understanding the vibrational eigenvectors of molecules is discussed. Assigning the spectra of model compounds is of particular importance and the individual-scaling approach, that has been used with isolated molecule ab-initio calculations, is outlined. Special emphasis is given to recent work on assigning the spectra of three 5–6 heterobicyclic systems; indole, benzimidazole and isatin.

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Tomkinson, J. Analysis of inelastic neutron scattering results on model compounds of the nitrogenous bases of the nucleotides. Pramana - J Phys 71, 745–754 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-008-0264-0

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