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Intra- and Intermolecular Interactions

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Phenomena in a world capable of supporting living organisms are determined by a hierarchy of physical and chemical principles. In this chapter we will investigate how and to what extent the molecular aspects of biology are reflected by the lowest grade of this hierarchy, i.e., the fundamental laws of atomic and molecular structure and interactions, expressed in the language of quantum theory. It should be borne in mind, however, that one of the main objectives of this treatise, the detailed understanding of structure-function relationships of biomolecules, is based on those principles of the hierarchy mentioned which inform about the relative probabilities of the many molecular states permitted by quantum theory.

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  1. G. Ludwig Hofacker
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  1. Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Am Klopferspitz, D-8033, Martinsried, Germany

    Walter Hoppe

  2. Institut für Biophysik, Universität Gießen Strahlenzentrum, Leihgesterner Weg 217, D-6300, Gießen, Germany

    Wolfgang Lohmann

  3. Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, Postfach 5560, D-7750, Konstanz, Germany

    Hubert Markl

  4. Institut für Botanik und Mikrobiologie, Technischen Universität München, Arcisstraße 21, D-8000, München 2, Germany

    Hubert Ziegler

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Hofacker, G.L. (1982). Intra- and Intermolecular Interactions. In: Hoppe, W., Lohmann, W., Markl, H., Ziegler, H. (eds) Biophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68877-5_4

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