Competition between π and Non-π Cation-B
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Fung Ming Siu; Ngai Ling Ma; Chun Wai Tsang
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract To understand the cation–π interaction in aromatic amino acids and peptides, the binding of M^+^ (where M^+^ = Li^+^, Na^+^, and K^+^) to phenylalanine (Phe) is studied at the best level of density functional theory reported so far. The different modes of M^+^ binding show the same orde