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Photoinduced charge transfer occurs naturally in DNA

D. B. Bucher, B. M. Pilles, T. Carell, and W. Zinth

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Abstract

We show by femtosecond IR spectroscopy that excited states in oligonucleotides decay with high yields by charge transfer to delocalized charged radicals. For the 6-4 lesion, charge transfer protects the DNA from Dewar formation.

© 2014 Optical Society of America

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