Analysis of ultrafast relaxation in photoexcited DNA base pairs of adenine and thymine |
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Authors: | E Samoylova T Schultz IV Hertel W Radloff |
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Institution: | aMax-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Max-Born-Str. 2A, D-12489 Berlin-Adlershof, Germany |
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Abstract: | The photoinduced dynamics in base pairs of adenine and thymine were analyzed by femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. On the short-time scale up to a few picoseconds, the characteristic time constants for the dimers are quite similar to the corresponding values of the monomers. This leads to the conclusion that ultrafast intramolecular relaxation proceeds via ππ* and nπ* states of one component within the dimer. On the long-time scale, we obtained a novel time constant of roughly 40 ps for the thymine dimer and the adenine–thymine base pair. This time constant was never observed in the monomers and is tentatively assigned to an intermolecular relaxation process, possibly via a hydrogen transfer state. |
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Keywords: | Adenine Thymine Excited state relaxation Internal conversion Time-resolved spectroscopy Multiphoton ionization DNA photochemistry |
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