Electron attachment to isolated nucleic acid bases
- 15 May 1996
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 104 (19) , 7792-7794
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.471484
Abstract
Uracil, thymine, and adenine anions were produced in charge-exchange collisions with laser-excited Rydberg atoms. Anion creation rates for uracil and thymine exhibit Rydberg electron energy dependences which are interpreted as due to the creation of both dipole-bound and conventional (valence) anions while only dipole-bound anions are observed for adenine.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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