Excited States of Proton-bound DNA/RNA Base Homo-dimers: Pyrimidines

Adesokan A. a; Ahlrichs R.; Alata I.; Alata I.; Alata I.; Alata I.; Andersen L. H.; Bakker J. M.; Berdakin M.; Berdakin M.; Bouchoux G.; Boyarkin O. V.; Brøndsted Nielsen S.; Chakraborty S.; Christophe Jouvet; Claude Dedonder-Lardeux; Delchev V. B.; Dopfer O.; Duncan M. A.; Fonseca Guerra C.; Fridgen T. D.; Féraud G.; Féraud G.; Gehring K.; Grégoire G.; Gustavo A. Pino; Géraldine Féraud; Góra R. W.; Hattig C.; Kamrath M. Z.; Kamrath M. Z.; Kang H.; Kang H.; Kang H.; Kleinermanns K.; Le Barbu-Debus K.; Lepere V.; Lieblein A. L.; Marian C.; Matias Berdakin; Mercier S. R.; Patzer A.; Pino G. A.; Rajabi K.; Saigusa H.; Salpin J.-Y.; Schermann J.-P.; Schirmer J.; Scuderi D.; Scuderi D.; Sobolewski A. L.; Solcà N.; Wang X. B.; Yang B.; Yang B.; Škríba A.

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Excited States of Proton-bound DNA/RNA Base Homo-dimers: Pyrimidines

Abstract

We are presenting the electronic photo fragment spectra of the protonated pyrimidine DNA bases homo-dimers. Only the thymine dimer exhibits a well structured vibrational progression, while protonated monomer shows broad vibrational bands. This shows that proton bonding can block some non radiative processes present in the monomer.Comment: We acknowledge the use of the computing facility cluster GMPCS of the LUMAT federation (FR LUMAT 2764