radiation damage. We report on ab initio investigations of the photochemistry of the cis and
trans conformers of kynurenine and of an intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded conformer of 3-
hydroxykynurenine O-β-d-glucoside. We have explored the excited-state reaction paths for
several radiationless excited-state deactivation processes in kynurenines. We show that
electron-driven proton-transfer processes mediated by an excited state of charge-transfer …