Hari Ram Paudel, Ranjita Das, Chia-Hua Wu and Judy I. Wu
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2020,18, 1078-1081
DOI:
10.1039/C9OB02412C,
Communication
Computed association strengths for 43 purine and pteridine quartets (38 to 100 kcal mol−1) show excellent linear correlation with π-conjugation gain in the assembled monomers (r2 = 0.965). Even quartets having the same secondary electrostatic interactions can display very different association strengths depending on the π-conjugation patterns of the monomeric units.