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Conical intersection dynamics of pyrimidine nucleosides tracked with sub-20-fs UV pulses

  • Borrego-Varillas Rocío,
  • Nenov Artur,
  • Ganzer Lucia,
  • Oriana Aurelio,
  • Conti Irene,
  • Delfino Ines,
  • Manzoni Cristian,
  • Garavelli Marco,
  • Cerullo Giulio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920510007
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 205
p. 10007

Abstract

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By combining transient absorption spectroscopy with sub-20-fs UV pulses and ab initio numerical simulations we follow the ultrafast dynamics in pyrimidine nucleosides and visualize the passage through conical intersections presiding excited state deactivation.