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An extremely stable, self-complementary hydrogen-bonded duplex.

Huaqiang Zeng·Xiaowu Yang·Amy L Brown·Suzana Martinovic·Richard D Smith·Bing Gong
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This paper describes the design, synthesis and characterization of a self-complementary six-H-bonded duplex with an association constant greater than 10(9) M(-1) in CHCl3.

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Huaqiang Zeng, Xiaowu Yang, Amy L Brown, Suzana Martinovic, Richard D Smith, Bing Gong. 2003-07-07. An extremely stable, self-complementary hydrogen-bonded duplex.. https://doi.org/10.1039/b301791e

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