This article represents a continuation of our ongoing effort toward quantitative understanding of the microwave catalytic effect. It provides a derivation of an analytical solution for the microwave catalysis. The obtained expression is compared with the results of the Monte Carlo simulation and is applied to reproduce the microwave catalytic effect experimentally observed in the polyethylene terephthalate solvolysis. Implications for the interactions of microwaves with living organisms in the context of widespread mobile telephony are also discussed.
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The insertion of a DNA base moiety at the end of a DNA duplex to form a Watson-Crick or wobble pair during DNA annealing or replication is a step of fundamental biological importance. Thus we investigated the energetics of a formation of the terminal G·C, G· T, and G·A base pairs using calorimetry and computer simulations. The energies calculated along classical MD trajectories in aqueous solution were analyzed in the framework of Linear Response Approximation to obtain relative free energies for the base insertion and their electrostatic, dispersion, and preorganization components.
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