Unexpectedly small effect of the DNA environment on vertical ionization energies of aqueous nucleobases

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 3766-3769

  Pluhařová, Eva ^a   Schroeder, Christi ^b   Seidel, Robert ^b   Bradforth, Stephen E ^b   Winter, Bernd ^c   Faubel, Manfred ^d   Slavíček, Petr ^e   Jungwirth, Pavel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

ab initio calculations; DNA ionization; photoelectron spectroscopy; solvation

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT; BUILDING BLOCKES; NUCLEOBASES; VERTICAL IONIZATION ENERGY; VERTICAL IONIZATION POTENTIALS;

CALCULATIONS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; SOLVATION;

DNA;

EID: 84887776023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz402106h     Document Type: Article

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