Folks:
A little off topic, but...
We've done a series of QM geometry optimizations on adenosine and analogs using Hartree-Fock and MP2 at various levels of theory (6-31G* to 6-311++G**). We've noticed the exocyclic amino group on the adenine base is about 10-15 degrees out of plane in many, if not all cases.
Has anyone else observed this? I don't recall seeing it in the literature. Using FF99 the amino group is, as expected, coplanar with the base.
Steven M. Graham, Ph.D.
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Received on Wed Jul 02 2014 - 07:30:07 PDT
