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Ab Initio Studies of Some Acids and Basic Amino Acids: Aspartic, Glutamic, Arginine, and Deaminoarginine

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Aspartic and glutamic acids contain one carboxyl group in their side chain, which makes them acidic. They have a pK of about 4.4, and at physiological pH they exist as the aspartate and glutamate ions.

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  1. John Jay College and Graduate School, City University of New York, New York, NY, 10019, USA

    Anne-Marie Sapse

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    Anne-Marie Sapse

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Sapse, AM. (2000). Ab Initio Studies of Some Acids and Basic Amino Acids: Aspartic, Glutamic, Arginine, and Deaminoarginine. In: Molecular Orbital Calculations for Amino Acids and Peptides. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1354-3_5

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