Interplay between "neutral" and "charge-transfer" excimers rules the excited state decay in adenine-rich polynucleotides

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 50, Issue 50, 2011, Pages 12016-12019

  Improta, Roberto ^a   Barone, Vincenzo ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

computational chemistry; DNA; excited states; nucleobases; oligonucleotides

Indexed keywords

EXCIMERS; EXCITED-STATE DECAY; EXCITON STATE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; NUCLEOBASES; NUMBER OF SPECIES; POLYNUCLEOTIDES; QUANTUM MECHANICAL LEVELS; SPECTRAL FEATURE;

CHARGE TRANSFER; COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; DNA; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; QUANTUM THEORY;

EXCITED STATES;

DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; POLYADENYLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HUMAN; QUANTUM THEORY;

DNA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; POLY A; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 83455176809     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201104382     Document Type: Article

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