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ArticleChemical science2022

Exciton decay mechanism in DNA single strands: back-electron transfer and ultrafast base motions.

Benjamin Bauer, Rahul Sharma, Majed Chergui, Malte Oppermann

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Article in Chemical science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Benjamin BauerLaboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy (LSU), Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ISIC-FSB CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland malte.oppermann@epfl.ch.
Rahul SharmaLaboratory for Computation and Visualization in Mathematics and Mechanics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, MATH-FSB CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0700-3098
Majed CherguiLaboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy (LSU), Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ISIC-FSB CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland malte.oppermann@epfl.ch.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4856-226X
Malte OppermannLaboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy (LSU), Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ISIC-FSB CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland malte.oppermann@epfl.ch.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3257-686X
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The photochemistry of DNA systems is characterized by the ultraviolet (UV) absorption of π-stacked nucleobases, resulting in exciton states delocalized over several bases. As their relaxation sensitively depends on local stacking conformations, disentangling the ensuing electronic and structural dynamics has remained an experimental challenge, despite their fundamental role in protecting the genome from potentially harmful UV radiation. Here we use transient absorption and transient absorption anisotropy spectroscopy with broadband femtosecond deep-UV pulses (250-360 nm) to resolve the exciton dynamics of UV-excited adenosine single strands under physiological conditions. Due to the exceptional deep-UV bandwidth and polarization sensitivity of our experimental approach, we simultaneously resolve the population dynamics, charge-transfer (CT) character and conformational changes encoded in the UV transition dipoles of the π-stacked nucleotides. Whilst UV excitation forms fully charge-separated CT excitons in less than 0.3 ps, we find that most decay back to the ground state

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