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

Conspectus The interaction between light and multichromophoric assemblies (MCAs) is the
primary event of many fundamental processes, from photosynthesis to organic photovoltaics …

Ultrafast electronic relaxation of nucleobases from 1ππ* states to the ground state (S0) is
considered essential for the photostability of DNA. However, transient absorption …

Multichromophoric biosystems represent a broad family with very diverse members, ranging
from light-harvesting pigment–protein complexes to nucleic acids. The former are designed …

Epigenetic modifications impart important functionality to nucleic acids during gene
expression but may increase the risk of photoinduced gene mutations. Thus, it is crucial to …

The dynamics of excited electronic states in self-assembled structures formed between silver
(I) ions and cytosine-containing DNA strands or monomeric cytosine derivatives were …

The nonadiabatic quantum dynamics (QD) of cytosine and 1-methylcytosine in the gas
phase is simulated for 250 fs after a photoexcitation to one of the first two bright states. The …

Here we refine and assess two computational procedures aimed to include the effect of
thermal fluctuations on the electronic spectra and the ultrafast excited state dynamics of …

We introduce a method (FrD-LVC) based on a fragment diabatization (FrD) for the
parametrization of a linear vibronic coupling (LVC) model suitable for studying the …

I-motifs are non-canonical DNA structures formed by intercalated hemiprotonated (CH· C)+
pairs, ie, formed by a cytosine (C) and a protonated cytosine (CH+), which are currently …