Environmental Fluctuations Facilitate Electron-Hole Transfer from Guanine to Adenine in DNA φ Stacks

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 624-627

  Voityuk, Alexander A ^a   Siriwong, Khatcharin ^a   Rösch, Notker ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charge transfer; DNA; Electron holes; Quantum mechanical calculations

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; FREE RADICALS; IONS; POSITIVE IONS; REACTION KINETICS; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

COUNTERIONS; NUCLEOBASES;

DNA;

ADENINE; DNA; GUANINE;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

ADENINE; BASE PAIRING; DNA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; GUANINE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 1042288479     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200352824     Document Type: Article

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