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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 8.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Rev. 1997 Aug 5;97(5):1473–1488. doi: 10.1021/cr9603791

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Example of a small-molecule model for aromatic π–π stacking in water.24 The binding of the adenine analog is measured as a function of varied aromatic groups in the host (anthracene is shown here). Binding free energy correlates reasonably well with surface area of the molecule.