Competing states in the photodissociation of adenine

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 993-996

  Wells, Kym L ^a   Hadden, David J ^a   Nix, Michael G D ^b   Stavros, Vasilios G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clusters; Dynamics; Excited states

Indexed keywords

AMINO GROUP; CLUSTERS;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 77950105499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz100050y     Document Type: Article

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