VUV photophysics and dissociative photoionization of pyrimidine, purine, imidazole and benzimidazole in the 7-18 eV photon energy range

Chemical Physics

Volumn 353, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 145-162

  Schwell, Martin ^a   Jochims, Hans Werner ^b   Baumgärtel, Helmut ^b   Leach, Sydney ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Dissociative photoionization; Nucleic acid bases; Polycyclic aromatic nitrogen heterocycles (PANH); Purines; Pyrimidines; VUV cosmochemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 54149100695     PISSN: 03010104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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