Marta’s dinucleotide paper accepted!

TOCMarta’s paper entitled, Exploring ultraviolet photoinduced charge-transfer dynamics in a model dinucleotide of guanine and thymine, has been accepted for publication in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. The paper, unequivocally demonstrates that the Franck-Condon excited states of the dinculeotide, d(GpT), are significantly delocalised across both nucleobases, and mediate d(G+pT) exciplex product formation on an ultrafast (< 350 fs) timescale. Theoretical studies show that the nature of the vertical excited states are very dependent on the specific geometry of the dinucleotide, and dictate the degree of delocalised, charge-transfer or localised character. The paper is available to read here.

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