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Charge Transfer between Nucleic Acid Bases and Chloranil

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SINCE 1950, under the impulse of Mulliken and others1, the structural chemistry problem of charge transfer complexes has been revived and brought to a stage of much greater understanding.

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MACHMER, P., DUCHESNE, J. Charge Transfer between Nucleic Acid Bases and Chloranil. Nature 206, 618–619 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/206618a0

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