Monitoring the effect of ultrafast deactivation of the electronic excited states of DNA bases and polynucleotides following 267 nm laser excitation using picosecond time-resolved infrared spectroscopy.
Kuimova MK., Dyer J., George MW., Grills DC., Kelly JM., Matousek P., Parker AW., Sun XZ., Towrie M., Whelan AM.
In this paper we demonstrate the use of picosecond time-resolved infrared spectroscopy (ps-TRIR) to monitor the early structural dynamics of DNA bases and polydeoxynucleotides following UV excitation in solution.