Solvent-dependent photophysics of 1-cyclohexyluracil: Ultrafast branching in the initial bright state leads nonradiatively to the electronic ground state and a long-lived1nπ* state

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 110, Issue 37, 2006, Pages 18641-18650

  Hare, Patrick M ^a   Crespo Hernández, Carlos E ^a   Kohler, Bern ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GROUND STATE; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; QUANTUM THEORY;

APROTIC SOLVENTS; CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION;

ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

EID: 33749631923     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp064714t     Document Type: Article

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