https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920510007
Conical intersection dynamics of pyrimidine nucleosides tracked with sub-20-fs UV pulses
1 IFN-CNR, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Viale del Risorgimento 4, I-40136 Bologna, Italy
3 Dipartimento di Scienze Ecologiche e Biologiche, Università della Tuscia, Largo dell’Università snc, I-01100 Viterbo, Italy
* Corresponding author: giulio.cerullo@polimi.it
Published online: 16 April 2019
By combining transient absorption spectroscopy with sub-20-fs UV pulses and ab initio numerical simulations we follow the ultrafast dynamics in pyrimidine nucleosides and visualize the passage through conical intersections presiding excited state deactivation.
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