Observation of long-lived excited states in DNA oligonucleotides with significant base sequence disorder

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 133-138

  De La Harpe, Kimberly ^a   Kohler, Bern ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE PAIRS; BASE SEQUENCES; BASE STACKING; DNA OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; EXCITED ELECTRONIC STATE; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; GENOMIC DNA; MONONUCLEOTIDES; MULTIMERS; NEAREST-NEIGHBORS; PURINE BASIS; SUBPICOSECOND TIME SCALE;

DNA; EXCITED STATES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RNA;

DNA SEQUENCES;

EID: 79952928244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz101470m     Document Type: Article

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