Preferred phosphodiester conformations in nucleic acids. A virtual bond torsion potential to estimate lone‐pair interactions in a phosphodiester

The lone‐pair orbital interactions arising in a phosphodiester are incorporated into semiempirical conformational energy calculations using a unifold “torsional potential” around the virtual bond linking the ester oxygen atoms. The results explain the observed experimental data better than other methods.

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