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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2015 Sep 10;137(37):12024–12034. doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b05916

Table 2.

Modulus (in a. u.) of the electric field created by the environment on the center of the eigth-membered cycle of the substrate and angle (in degrees) with respect to the solute dipole associate to the charge separation observed at the TS.

Aqueous solution Ribosome Ribosome-Mg2+
|E| ×102
(au)		 α
(deg)		 |E| ×102
(au)		 α
(deg)		 |E| ×102
(au)		 α
(deg)
Reactant Complex 0.72 ± 0.24 97 ± 22 0.76 ± 0.11 59 ± 6 0.49 ± 0.16 117 ± 15
Transition State 1.17 ± 0.14 167 ± 7 0.72 ± 0.15 81 ± 9 0.75 ± 0.12 125 ± 9