Understanding the properties of electronically excited states is a challenging task that
becomes increasingly important for numerous applications in chemistry, molecular physics …

The photophysics and photochemistry of DNA is of great importance due to the potential
damage of the genetic code by UV light. Quantum mechanical studies have played a key …

The scope of this review is the nature and dynamics of the singlet excited electronic states
created in nucleic acids and their constituents by UV light. Interest in the UV photochemistry …

DNA charge transport (CT) chemistry has received considerable attention by scientific
researchers over the past 15 years since our first provocative publication on long-range CT …

Ultraviolet light is strongly absorbed by DNA, producing excited electronic states that
sometimes initiate damaging photochemical reactions. Fully map** the reactive and …

A detailed understanding of the properties of electronic excited states and the reaction
mechanisms that molecules undergo after light irradiation is a fundamental ingredient for …

Solute− solvent intermolecular photoinduced electron transfer (ET) reaction was proposed to
account for the drastic fluorescence quenching behaviors of oxazine 750 (OX750) …

To study the early time hydrogen-bonding dynamics of chromophore in hydrogen-donating
solvents upon photoexcitation, the infrared spectra of the hydrogen-bonded solute− solvent …

Evolution has ensured that plants and animals have developed effective protection
mechanisms against the potentially harmful effects of incident ultraviolet radiation (UVR) …

Nonadiabatic events, in which the Born-Oppenheimer approximation breaks down, are
ubiquitous in chemistry and biology. It is now widely accepted that they are facilitated by …