Polarization of the nucleic acid bases in aqueous solution

Abstract We present calculations of the absolute free energy of solvation of five nucleic acid bases and five methylated nucleic acid bases using a recently developed local-field SCF procedure in which the electronic structure and geometry are both optimized in the presence of solvent. The calculated solvation free energies are increased 23%–24% by the aqueous-phase relaxation.

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