Quantum Mechanical Studies on the Photophysics and the Photochemistry of Nucleic Acids and Nucleobases

Chemical Reviews

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 3540-3593

  Improta, Roberto ^a   Santoro, Fabrizio ^a   Blancafort, Lluís ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; GENE ENCODING; GROUND STATE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES;

COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CONICAL INTERSECTION; DINUCLEOTIDES; EXCITONIC STATE; PHOTO-ACTIVATED; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL STUDY; TIME RESOLVED PUMP-PROBE SPECTROSCOPIES; ULTRAFAST DECAY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

DNA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE;

BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN BOND; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION RESPONSE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BASE PAIRING; DNA; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; PURINES; PYRIMIDINES; QUANTUM THEORY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84962408758     PISSN: 00092665     EISSN: 15206890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00444     Document Type: Review

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