Monitoring nonadiabatic dynamics of the RNA base uracil by UV pump-IR probe spectroscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1933-1942

  Fingerhut, Benjamin P ^a   Dorfman, Konstantin E ^a   Mukamel, Shaul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA; excited states; nonadiabatic on the fly dynamics; time resolved IR spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; DNA; IRRADIATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROBES; QUANTUM THEORY; RNA; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; TIME MEASUREMENT; URANIUM METALLOGRAPHY; VANADIUM METALLOGRAPHY;

ELECTRONIC EXCITED STATE; ELECTRONICALLY EXCITED STATE; EXCITED-STATE DYNAMICS; NON-ADIABATIC DYNAMICS; ON THE FLIES; ON THE FLY MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL AND SPECTRAL RESOLUTIONS; TIME-RESOLVED IR SPECTROSCOPY;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 84879212519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz400776r     Document Type: Article

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