Tautomeric selectivity of the excited-state lifetime of guanine/cytosine base pairs: The role of electron-driven proton-transfer processes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 50, 2005, Pages 17903-17906

  Sobolewski, Andrzej L ^a   Domcke, Wolfgang ^b   Hattig C ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA; Hydrogen bonding; Watson Crick

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; PROTON;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; ENERGY; HYDROGEN BOND; LIFESPAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

BASE PAIRING; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTONS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 29144451968     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0504087102     Document Type: Article

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