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Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. 2. Chemistry, Organic. 3. Molecular biology. I. Title. 

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The unique combination of organic chemistry and molecular biology which is nowadays applied in nucleic acid synthesis and analysis led to a great interest in nucleic acid bioorganic chemistry. We give a few examples of recent synthetic endeavours in this field. 

In order to fully appreciate the widespread application that molecular modeling can find in beginning organic chemistry, it is important to appreciate the fundamental relationship between molecular structure and chemical, physical and biological properties. So-called structure-property relationships are explored in nearly every college chemistry course, whether introductory or advanced. Students are first taught about the structures of molecules, and are then taught how to relate structure to molecular properties. 

K. C. Nicolaou was bom in 1946 in Cyprus. He studied chemistry at the University of London (B.Sc., 1969 Ph.D., 1972), Columbia University (postdoctoral research) and Harvard University (postdoctoral research). Between 1976 and 1989 he was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently holds joint appointments at The Scripps Research Institute, where he is the Darlene Shiley Professor of Chemistry and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, and at the University of California, San Diego, where he is Professor of Chemistry. His research interests span the areas of synthetic organic chemistry, bioorganic chemistiy, molecular design, and the chemistry and biology of natural products. 

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