期刊
MONATSHEFTE FUR CHEMIE
卷 149, 期 1, 页码 1-9出版社
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00706-017-2108-4
关键词
DNA; Thymine dimerization; Quantum chemical calculations; Non-adiabatic dynamics; Wavefunction analysis; Charge transfer
资金
- University of Vienna
- Chemical Monthly
- Springer
- Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Austrian Chemical Society (GOCH)
Cyclobutane thymine dimerization is the most prominent DNA photoinduced damage. While the ultrafast mechanism that proceeds in the singlet manifold is nowadays well established, the triplet-state pathway is not completely understood. Here we report the underlying mechanism of the photosensitized dimerization process in the triplet state. Quantum chemical calculations, combined with wavefunction analysis, and nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations demonstrate that this is a stepwise reaction, traversing a long-lived triplet biradical intermediate, which is characterized as a Frenkel exciton with very small charge-transfer character. The low yield of the reaction is regulated by two factors: (i) a relatively large energy barrier that needs to be overcome to form the exciton intermediate, and (ii) a bifurcation of the ground-state potential-energy surface that mostly leads back to the Franck-Condon region because dimerization requires a very restricted combination of coordinates and velocities at the event of non-radiative decay to the ground state. [GRAPHICS]
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