Radiation Induced Molecular Phenomena in Nucleic Acids A Comprehensive Theoretical and Experimental Analysis - Shukla, Manoj; Leszczynski, Jerzy; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Radiation Induced Molecular Phenomena In Nucleic Acids: A Brief Introduction -- Single-Reference Methods for Excited States in Molecules and Polymers -- An Introduction to Equation-of-Motion and Linear-Response Coupled-Cluster Methods for Electronically Excited States of Molecules -- Exploring Photobiology and Biospectroscopy with the Sac-Ci (Symmetry-Adapted Cluster-Configuration Interaction) Method -- Multiconfigurational quantum chemistry for ground and excited states -- Relativistic Multireference Perturbation Theory: Complete Active-Space Second-Order Perturbation Theory (CASPT2) With The Four-Component Dirac Hamiltonian -- Structure and Properties of Molecular Solutes in Electronic Excited States: a Polarizable Continuum Model approach based on the Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory -- Nonadiabatic Excited-State Dynamics of Aromatic Heterocycles: Toward the Time-Resolved Simulation of Nucleobases -- Excited-State Structural Dynamics of Nucleic Acids and Their Components -- Ultrafast Radiationless Decay in Nucleic Acids: Insights From Nonadiabatic Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics -- Decay Pathways of Pyrimidine Bases: From Gas Phase to Solution -- Isolated DNA Base Pairs, Interplay Between Theory and Experiment -- Isolated Guanine: Tautomerism, Spectroscopy And Excited State Dynamics -- Computational Study of UV-Induced Excitations of DNA Fragments -- Non-Adiabatic Photoprocesses of Fundamental Importance to Chemistry: From Electronic Relaxation of DNA Bases to Intramolecular Charge Transfer in Electron Donor-Acceptor Molecules -- Photostability and Photoreactivity in Biomolecules: Quantum Chemistry of Nucleic Acid Base Monomers and Dimers -- Computational Modeling of Cytosine Photophysics and Photochemistry: From the Gas Phase to DNA -- From the Primary Radiation Induced Radicals in DNA Constituents to Strand Breaks: Low Temperature EPR/ENDOR Studies -- Low Energy Electron Damage To DNA -- Radiation Effects On DNA: Theoretical Investigations Of Electron, Hole And Excitation Pathways To DNA Damage -- Stable Valence Anions of Nucleic Acid Bases and DNA Strand Breaks Induced by Low Energy Electrons.
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