Quantum mechanical studies on the photophysics and the photochemistry of nucleic acids and nucleobases

R Improta, F Santoro, L Blancafort - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
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 …

Nucleic acids as a playground for the computational study of the photophysics and photochemistry of multichromophore assemblies

L Martínez Fernández, F Santoro… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The interaction between light and multichromophoric assemblies (MCAs) is the
primary event of many fundamental processes, from photosynthesis to organic photovoltaics …

Surface hop** dynamics with correlated single-reference methods: 9H-adenine as a case study

F Plasser, R Crespo-Otero, M Pederzoli… - Journal of Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Surface hop** dynamics methods using the coupled cluster to approximated second order
(CC2), the algebraic diagrammatic construction scheme to second order (ADC (2)), and the …

Highly efficient surface hop** dynamics using a linear vibronic coupling model

F Plasser, S Gómez, MFSJ Menger, S Mai… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We report an implementation of the linear vibronic coupling (LVC) model within the surface
hop** dynamics approach and present utilities for parameterizing this model in a blackbox …

Template-free fabrication of nitrogen-doped hollow carbon spheres for high-performance supercapacitors based on a scalable homopolymer vesicle

H Sun, Y Zhu, B Yang, Y Wang, Y Wu… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Presented in this article is the template-free fabrication of nitrogen-doped hollow carbon
spheres (N-HCSs) as electrode materials for high-performance supercapacitors based on …

Advanced quantum and semiclassical methods for simulating photoinduced molecular dynamics and spectroscopy

S Faraji, D Picconi… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular‐level understanding of photoinduced processes is critically important for
breakthroughs in transformative technologies utilizing light, ranging from photomedicine to …

Nonadiabatic absorption spectra and ultrafast dynamics of DNA and RNA photoexcited nucleobases

JA Green, MY Jouybari, D Aranda, R Improta… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
We have recently proposed a protocol for Quantum Dynamics (QD) calculations, which is
based on a parameterisation of Linear Vibronic Coupling (LVC) Hamiltonians with Time …

Nonlinear molecular electronic spectroscopy via mctdh quantum dynamics: From exact to approximate expressions

F Segatta, DA Ruiz, F Aleotti, M Yaghoubi… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present an accurate and efficient approach to computing the linear and nonlinear optical
spectroscopy of a closed quantum system subject to impulsive interactions with an incident …

[BOOK][B] Photoinduced processes in nucleic acids

M Barbatti, AC Borin, S Ullrich - 2015 - Springer
Photoinduced processes in nucleic acids are phenomena of fundamental interest in diverse
fields, from prebiotic studies, through medical research on carcinogenesis, to the …

On the participation of photoinduced N–H bond fission in aqueous adenine at 266 and 220 nm: a combined ultrafast transient electronic and vibrational absorption …

GM Roberts, HJB Marroux, MP Grubb… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A combination of ultrafast transient electronic absorption spectroscopy (TEAS) and transient
vibrational absorption spectroscopy (TVAS) is used to investigate whether photoinduced N …