Comparative study of quantum mechanical methods related to nucleic acid bases: Electronic spectra, excited state structures and interations

Computational Studies of RNA and DNA

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 433-461

  Shukla, M K ^a   Leszczynski, Jerzy ^a  

^a JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ab initio; base pairs; CIS method; electronic transitions; excited state geometries; Nucleic acid bases; ultrafast nonradiative decay

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864714858     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4851-3_17     Document Type: Chapter

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