Photoinduced Phenomena in Nucleic Acids I: Nucleobases in by Mario Barbatti, Antonio Carlos Borin, Susanne Ullrich

By Mario Barbatti, Antonio Carlos Borin, Susanne Ullrich

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However, subsequent data from a helium droplet experiment exhibited slightly different IR spectra which formed a better match with the keto forms [38]. This led to a re-analysis of the IR–UV data and a reassignment of the two tautomers from the keto to the imino form. This assignment was subsequently confirmed by IR–UV measurements in the imino stretch region below 2,000 cmÀ1 [66]. Gas-phase microwave experiments also found the keto tautomers [40]. These observations are summarized in Fig. 9 in which the red tautomers were observed by the two techniques that involve direct absorption in the ground state (helium droplets and microwave), while the yellow tautomers were observed by the technique that involves action spectroscopy via the electronic excited state (REMPI).

3 Isomers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Derivatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Character of the Excited State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Tautomers .

De Vries UV-Excitation from an Experimental Perspective: Frequency Resolved 37 Table 1 Observed S1 band origins of nucleobases, nucleosides, base-pairs, and assorted nucleobase derivatives Nucleobases Compound Origin cmÀ1 Remarks References Guanine 32,864 33,269 33,910 34,755 [15] [15] [15] [15] Adenine 36,105 36,062 31,826 ~36,000 36,000 36,700 34,443 34,436 34,443 33,314 ~32,800 35,064 33,103, 33,282 35,040 33,483 31,908 31,269 34,440 31,939 34,612 34,459 7H enol syn Oxo-imino Oxo-imino N9H hydroxylamino π–π* n–π* Keto Enol Broad onset Broad onset Enol Enol Enol C in enol form Doubly H-bonded Cytosine Nucleosides Base-pairs Derivatives Derivative pairs Thymine Uracil Guanosine 20 -Deoxyguanosine 30 -Deoxyguanosine G–C A–T G–G A–A C–C 1-Methylcytosine 5-Methylcytosine 5-OH-uracil 5-NH2-uracil 9-Methylguanine 2,4Diaminopyrimidine 2,6-Diaminopurine 9-mG-1mC C-1mC C-5mC 5mC–5mC 34,881 32,215 33,000 33,419 32,500, 32,691, 32,916 32,493, 32,691, 32,872 Diamino 9H diamino 7H diamino Broad [16, 17] [16, 17] [18] [18] [19] [19] [20] [20] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [16, 25] [18] [18] [18] [26] [26] [24] [27] [27] [22] [18] [18] [18] M (as in 1mC) designates methyl multiphoton ionization (REMPI) spectra of all of the canonical bases and some derivatives, as well as some of their clusters, representing base pair combinations.

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