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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 10, Issue 9, Pages 2156-2161Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00492
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-1800052]
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Damage to RNA from ultraviolet radiation induces chemical modifications to the nucleobases. Unraveling the excited states involved in these reactions is essential; however, investigations aimed at understanding the electronic-energy relaxation pathways of the RNA nucleotide uridine 5'-monophosphate (UMP) have not received enough attention. In this Letter, the excited-state dynamics of UMP is investigated in aqueous solution. Excitation at 267 nm results in a trifurcation event that leads to the simultaneous population of the vibrationally excited ground state, a long-lived (1)n pi* state, and a receiver triplet state within 200 fs. The receiver state internally converts to the long-lived (3)pi pi* state in an ultrafast time scale. The results elucidate the electronic relaxation pathways and clarify earlier transient absorption experiments performed for uracil derivatives in solution. This mechanistic information is important because long-lived n pi* and pi pi* excited states of both singlet and triplet multiplicities are thought to lead to the formation of harmful photoproducts.
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