The Excited‐State Lifetimes in a G⋅C DNA Duplex are Nearly Independent of Helix Conformation and Base‐Pairing Motif
- 29 June 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Chemphyschem
- Vol. 10 (9-10) , 1421-1425
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.200900004
Abstract
DNA photophysics: Femtosecond transient absorption experiments reveal that excited states produced by UV light in a duplex DNA oligonucleotide decay at essentially the same rate in B and Z helix conformers (see figure). magnified imageKeywords
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