New Insights about the Photostability of DNA/RNA Bases: Triplet n pi* State Leads to Effective Intersystem Crossing in Pyrimidinones

Zhang, K; Wang, FF; Jiang, YR; Wang, XL; Pan, HF; Sun, ZR; Sun, HT; Xu, JH; Chen, JQ

Chen, JQ (corresponding author), East China Normal Univ, State Key Lab Precis Spect, Shanghai 200241, Peoples R China.; Chen, JQ (corresponding author), Shanxi Univ, Collaborat Innovat Ctr Extreme Opt, Taiyuan 030006, Shanxi, Peoples R China.

JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, 2021; 125 (8): 2042

Abstract

The high photostability of DNA/RNA nucleobases is attributed to the effective internal conversions of their bright (1)pi pi* states to the ground stat......

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