Stable Valence Anions of Nucleic Acid Bases and DNA Strand Breaks Induced by Low Energy Electrons

Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages 619-667

  Rak, Janusz ^a   Mazurkiewicz, Kamil ^a   Kobyłecka, Monika ^a   Storoniak, Piotr ^a   Haranczyk, Maciej ^a   DĄbkowska, Iwona ^a   Bachorz, Rafał A ^b   Gutowski, Maciej ^a,c   Radisic, Dunja ^d   Stokes, Sarah T ^d   Eustis, Soren N ^d   Wang, Di ^d   Li, Xiang ^d   Ko, Yeon Jae ^d   Bowen, Kit H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Low Energy Electron; Nucleic Acid Bases; Proton Transfer; Stable Anion; Strand Break

Indexed keywords

EID: 85073229881     PISSN: 25424491     EISSN: 25424483     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8184-2_21     Document Type: Chapter

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