Due to its high societal impact, the replacement of precious metals used in technological
devices by more abundant and eco‐friendly metals, such as iron, has stimulated significant …

Infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria pose an impending threat to
humanity, as the evolution of MDR bacteria outpaces the development of effective …

DNA damage is ubiquitous in nature and is at the basis of emergent treatments such as
photodynamic therapy, which is based on the activation of highly oxidative reactive oxygen …

The theoretical prediction of molecular electronic spectra by means of quantum mechanical
(QM) computations is fundamental to gain a deep insight into many photophysical and …

Theoretical determinations of absorption cross sections (σ) in the gas phase and molar
extinction coefficients (ε) in condensed phases (water solution, interfaces or surfaces …

Previous time-resolved measurements on D149, the most-studied dye of the indoline family,
had shown a fast time-component of 20–40 ps that had tentatively been attributed to …

Photoactivatable Pt (IV) anticancer prodrug trans, trans, trans-[Pt (N3) 2 (OH) 2 (pyridine)
2](1) has been shown to bind to and induce oxidation of all four DNA nucleobases. Herein …

The OH radical is a well-known mediator in the oxidation of biological structures like DNA.
Over the past decades, the precise events taking place after reaction of DNA nucleobases …

Low-energy (0-3 eV) ballistic electrons originated during the irradiation of biological material
can interact with DNA/RNA nucleobases yielding transient-anion species which undergo …

Photocycloreversion plays a central role in the study of the repair of DNA lesions, reverting
them into the original pyrimidine nucleobases. Particularly, among the proposed …