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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 126, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2728897
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Nonadiabatic first-principles molecular dynamics simulations have been performed of the photoexcited Watson-Crick guanine-cytosine (GC) DNA base pair in the gas phase and in aqueous solution. An excited state coupled proton-electron transfer (CPET) from G to C along the central hydrogen bond is observed upon excitation of the pi pi(*) state initially localized on G. In the resulting charge transfer state a conical intersection between the excited state and the ground state is easily accessible. Therefore radiationless decay is fast, of the order of 100 fs, followed by a rapid CPET back reaction retrieving the initial Watson-Crick structure. A detailed analysis of the mechanism of nonradiative decay suggests a biexponential behavior in which out-of-plane motion plays a special role for the longer decay component. (C) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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