Commonly consumed foods and beverages can contain chemicals with reported
carcinogenic activity in rodent models. Moreover, exposures to some of these substances …

Conspectus Photochemical reactions are increasingly being used for chemical and
materials synthesis, for example, in photoredox catalysis, and generally involve …

Triplet ketone sensitizers are of central importance within the realm of photochemical
transformations. Although the radical-type character of triplet excited states of diaryl ketones …

Methods able to simultaneously account for both static and dynamic electron correlations
have often been employed, not only to model photochemical events but also to provide …

Multi-configurational second order perturbation theory (CASPT2) has become a very
popular method for describing excited-state properties since its development in 1990. To …

The photochemistry of benzophenone, a paradigmatic organic molecule for
photosensitization, was investigated by means of surface-hopping ab initio molecular …

Biofilms are a persistent issue in healthcare and industry. Once formed, the eradication of
biofilms is challenging as the extracellular polymeric matrix provides protection against …

DNA is constantly exposed to damaging threats coming from oxidative stress, ie, from the
presence of free radicals and reactive oxygen species. Sensitization from exogenous and …

The propensity of 5-formyluracil and 5-formylcytosine, ie oxidative lesions and epigenetic
intermediates, in acting as intrinsic DNA photosensitizers is unraveled by using a …

Sunscreens are one of the most common ways of providing on-demand additional
photoprotection to the skin. Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy has recently proven …