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Purines and related compounds are central ingredients in the genetic code and form the structural framework for many drugs and other bioactive compounds. A key feature of these compounds is their acidity, as expressed by their pKa values. For a proper understanding of the behaviors of these compounds, it is important to have a theoretical means for estimating their acidities. Here we present a quantum-chemical...