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Dr. Glaser's Visualization Center
To accompany Bruice, Organic Chemistry, 3/e, Chapter 25

Theme Molecule Name Chemical Formula
Nucleic Acid Bases adenine (S) C5H5N5
Nucleic Acid Bases thymine (S) C5H6N2O2
Nucleic Acid Bases uracil (S) C4H4N2O2
Nucleic Acid Bases cytosine (S) C4H5N2O
Nucleic Acid Bases guanine (S) C5H5N5O
Watson-Crick Base Pairs adenine-thymine base pair (S)
Watson-Crick Base Pairs guanine-cytosine base pair (S)
Antibiotics (from PDB) tetracycline (S) pdb enzyme
Antibiotics (from PDB) chloramphenicol complexed to acetyltransferase (S) pdb enzyme

[a] Unless otherwise noted, structures were optimized at the ab initio level RHF/6-31G*.
[b] Structures marked pdb were obtained from the protein data bank.