Electronic excitation and structural relaxation of the adenine dinucleotide in gas phase and solution

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1440-1452

  Plasser, Felix ^a   Lischka, Hans ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; GAS; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; GAS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDES; ELECTRONS; GASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 84881114475     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3pp50032b     Document Type: Article

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