https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134105019
Ultrafast IR pump-probe and 2D-IR photon echo spectroscopy of adenosine-thymidine base pairs
1 Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Max-Born-Str. 2 A, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
2 Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2025, USA
3 Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, D-24098 Kiel, Germany
a e-mail: nibberin@mbi-berlin.de
We characterize diagonal and off-diagonal anharmonicities of N-H stretching vibrations in adenosine and thymidine monomers and in A•T-base pairs in chloroform solution, showing the important role of coupling between vibrationally excited N-H stretching states.
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