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Photoinduced Phenomena in Nucleic Acids I pp 33–56Cite as

UV-Excitation from an Experimental Perspective: Frequency Resolved

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Electronic spectroscopy of DNA bases in the gas phase provides detailed information about the electronic excitation, which places the molecule in the Franck–Condon region in the excited state and thus prepares the starting conditions for excited-state dynamics. Double resonance or hole-burning spectroscopy in the gas phase can provide such information with isomer specificity, probing the starting potential energy landscape as a function of tautomeric form, isomeric structure, or hydrogen bonded or stacked cluster structure. Action spectroscopy, such REMPI, can be affected by excited-state lifetimes.

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Acknowledgement

This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under CHE-1301305 and by NASA under Grant No. NNX12AG77G. Acknowledgment is made to the Donors of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for partial support of this research.

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Following electronic excitation, probed in the frequency domain (blue), internal conversion (red) can compete with fluorescence (green) and other photochemical pathways (black).

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de Vries, M.S. (2014). UV-Excitation from an Experimental Perspective: Frequency Resolved. In: Barbatti, M., Borin, A., Ullrich, S. (eds) Photoinduced Phenomena in Nucleic Acids I. Topics in Current Chemistry, vol 355. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/128_2014_560

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