Ultrafast intersystem crossing of 4-thiothymidine in aqueous solution

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 480-484

  Harada, Yosuke ^a,b   Okabe, Chie ^b   Kobayashi, Takashi ^a   Suzuki, Tadashi ^a   Ichimura, Teijiro ^a   Nishi, Nobuyuki ^b   Xu, Yao Zhong ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clusters; Dynamics; Excited states

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CLUSTERS; EXCITED SINGLET STATE; INTERSYSTEM CROSSING; PUMP-PROBE; QUANTUM CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; ULTRA-FAST;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 77349114941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz900276x     Document Type: Article

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