Modeling photoionization of aqueous DNA and its components

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1209-1217

  Pluhařová, Eva ^a,c   Slavíček, Petr ^b   Jungwirth, Pavel ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; WATER;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY;

DNA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; QUANTUM THEORY; WATER;

EID: 84929590219     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: 15204898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar500366z     Document Type: Article

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