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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 18, Issue 30, Pages 20126-20134Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6cp01345g
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- ECOS-MinCyT cooperation program [A11E02]
- ANR Research Grant [ANR2010BLANC040501]
- FONCyT
- CONICET
- SeCyT-UNC
- CNRS GDR EMIE
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The excited state lifetimes of DNA bases are often very short due to very efficient non-radiative processes assigned to the pi pi*-n pi* coupling. A set of protonated aromatic diazine molecules (pyridazine, pyrimidine and pyrazine C4H5N2+) and protonated pyrimidine DNA bases (cytosine, uracil and thymine), as well as the protonated pyridine (C5H6N+), have been investigated. For all these molecules except one tautomer of protonated uracil (enol-keto), electronic spectroscopy exhibits vibrational line broadening. Excited state geometry optimization at the CC2 level has been conducted to find out whether the excited state lifetimes measured from line broadening can be correlated to the calculated ordering of the pi pi* and n pi* states and the pi pi*-n pi* energy gap. The short lifetimes, observed when one nitrogen atom of the ring is not protonated, can be rationalized by relaxation of the pi pi* state to the n pi* state or directly to the electronic ground state through ring puckering.
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