The photophysics and photochemistry of DNA is of great importance due to the potential
damage of the genetic code by UV light. Quantum mechanical studies have played a key …

Evolution has ensured that plants and animals have developed effective protection
mechanisms against the potentially harmful effects of incident ultraviolet radiation (UVR) …

Conspectus The interaction between light and multichromophoric assemblies (MCAs) is the
primary event of many fundamental processes, from photosynthesis to organic photovoltaics …

Photophysical investigations of the canonical nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA
during the past 15 years have revealed that excited states formed by the absorption of UV …

Multichromophoric biosystems represent a broad family with very diverse members, ranging
from light-harvesting pigment–protein complexes to nucleic acids. The former are designed …

The knowledge of the fundamental processes induced by the direct absorption of UV
radiation by DNA allows extrapolating conclusions drawn from in vitro studies to the in‐vivo …

Epigenetic modifications impart important functionality to nucleic acids during gene
expression but may increase the risk of photoinduced gene mutations. Thus, it is crucial to …

In this work hydrogen bonding in a diverse set of 36 unnatural and the three natural Watson
Crick base pairs adenine (A)–thymine (T), adenine (A)–uracil (U) and guanine (G)–cytosine …

Assessment of the DNA photo-oxidation and synthetic photocatalytic activity of chromium
polypyridyl complexes is dominated by consideration of their long-lived metal-centered …

The response of DNA and RNA bases to ultraviolet (UV) radiation has been receiving
increasing attention for a number of important reasons:(i) the selection of the building blocks …