Cyclobutane pyrimidine photodimerization of DNA/RNA nucleobases in the triplet state

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2072-2076

  Climent, Teresa ^a   González Ramírez, Israel ^a   González Luque, Remedios ^a   Merchán, Manuela ^a   Serrano Andrés, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOBUTANE PYRIMIDINE DIMERS; CYCLOBUTANES; HOMODIMERS; INTERSYSTEM CROSSING; NUCLEOBASES; PHOTO-INDUCED; PHOTODIMERIZATION; PHOTOPRODUCTS; PHOTOSENSITIZER MOLECULE; RELATIVE POSITIONS; SINGLET-TRIPLET; TRIPLET STATE; TRIPLET-TRIPLET ENERGY TRANSFER; URACIL DIMERS;

BUTANE; DIMERS; ENERGY TRANSFER; PHOTOSENSITIZERS;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77954750369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz100601p     Document Type: Article

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