Monitoring the effect of ultrafast deactivation of the electronic excited states of DNA bases and polynucleotides following 267 nm laser excitation using picosecond time-resolved infrared spectroscopy

Chemical Communications

Volumn , Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1182-1184

  Kuimova, Marina K ^a   Dyer, Joanne ^a   George, Michael W ^a   Grils, David C ^a   Kelly, John M ^b   Matousek, Pavel ^c   Parker, Anthony W ^c   Sun, Xue Zhong ^a   Towrie, Michael ^c   Whelan, Aine M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c Harwell Science and Innovation Campus   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BASE; POLYNUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRONICS; EXCITATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PICOSECOND TIME RESOLVED INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 20144369490     PISSN: 13597345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b414450c     Document Type: Article

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