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Small changes, big effects: Two thrombin inhibitors (see picture; R=cyclopentyl (1 a), R=cyclohexyl (1 b)) were characterized thermodynamically and computationally to explain their identical binding constants. Surprisingly, the free energy of binding is achieved with different enthalpic and entropic contributions (see plot).
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Gerlach et al. (2007) studied this question.
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