Electronic coupling in the excited electronic state of stacked DNA base homodimers

Hans-Hermann Ritze; Pavel Hobza; Dana Nachtigallová

doi:10.1039/B618382D

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Electronic coupling in the excited electronic state of stacked DNA base homodimers†

Hans-Hermann Ritze,^b Pavel Hobza^a and Dana Nachtigallová*^a

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^a Center for Biomolecules and Complex Molecular Systems, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo na′m. 2, Praha 6, Czech Republic
E-mail: dana.nachtigallova@uochb.cas.cz

^b Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Max-Born-Strasse 2A, Berlin, Germany
E-mail: ritze@mbi-berlin.de

Abstract

The nature of the electronic coupling of stacked nucleic acid bases adenine (A), thymine (T), and cytosine (C), in A–A, T–T, and C–C complexes in their excited states was investigated; a different character of the electronic coupling for the T–T complex was shown.

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Geometries of stacked DNA bases (Fig. S1?S3); excitation energies (in eV) end their splitting (Δ E) of model ethylene-dimer and ethylene?acetylene systems in stacked conformation (Tables S1 and S2); calculations of vertical transition energies of C?C and T?T stacked dimers. PDF (1024K)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/B618382D
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 15 Dec 2006
Accepted: 12 Feb 2007
First published: 26 Feb 2007

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Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2007,9, 1672-1675

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Electronic coupling in the excited electronic state of stacked DNA base homodimers†

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