Real-time observation of a correlation-driven sub 3 fs charge migration in ionised adenine

EP Månsson, S Latini, F Covito, V Wanie… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Sudden ionisation of a relatively large molecule can initiate a correlation-driven process
dubbed charge migration, where the electron density distribution is expected to rapidly move …

Photoionization spectroscopy of nucleobases and analogues in the gas phase using synchrotron radiation as excitation light source

M Schwell, M Hochlaf - Photoinduced phenomena in nucleic acids I …, 2015 - Springer
We review here the photoionization and photoelectron spectroscopy of the gas phase
nucleic acid bases adenine, thymine, uracil, cytosine, and guanine, as well as the three …

Characterization of acetonitrile ice irradiated by X-rays employing the procoda code – I. Effective rate constants and abundances at chemical equilibrium

GA Carvalho, S Pilling… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In this work, the chemical evolution of pure acetonitrile ice at 13 K irradiated with broad-band
soft X-rays (from 6 eV to 2 keV) is determined by using a computational methodology …

Photostability of gas-and solid-phase biomolecules within dense molecular clouds due to soft X-rays

S Pilling, DPP Andrade… - Monthly Notices of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
An experimental photochemistry study involving gas-and solid-phase amino acids (glycine,
DL-valine, DL-proline) and nucleobases (adenine and uracil) under soft X-rays was …

Ultrafast dynamics in the DNA building blocks thymidine and thymine initiated by ionizing radiation

EP Månsson, S De Camillis, MC Castrovilli… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Understanding how energetic charged particles damage DNA is crucial for improving
radiotherapy techniques such as hadron therapy and for the development of new …

Electron impact fragmentation of adenine: partial ionization cross sections for positive fragments

PJM van der Burgt, S Finnegan, S Eden - The European Physical Journal …, 2015 - Springer
Using computer-controlled data acquisition we have measured mass spectra of positive ions
for electron impact on adenine, with electron energies up to 100 eV. Ion yield curves for 50 …

Electron ionization of the nucleobases adenine and hypoxanthine near the threshold: a combined experimental and theoretical study

MM Dawley, K Tanzer, WA Cantrell… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Electron ionization of the DNA nucleobase, adenine, and the tRNA nucleobase,
hypoxanthine, was investigated near the threshold region (∼ 5–20 eV) using a high …

Electron impact ionization of adenine: Partial cross sections

MA Rehman, E Krishnakumar - Atoms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Electron ionization of a genetically important nucleobase, adenine, was investigated from
threshold to 500 eV using crossed electron beam–effusive molecular beam geometry and …

Ultrafast dynamics of adenine following XUV ionization

EP Månsson, S Latini, F Covito, V Wanie… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The dynamics of biologically relevant molecules exposed to ionizing radiation contains
many facets and spans several orders of magnitude in time and energy. In the extreme …

Degradation of adenine on the martian surface in the presence of perchlorates and ionizing radiation: a reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometric study

S Góbi, A Bergantini, RI Kaiser - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The aim of the present work is to unravel the radiolytic decomposition of adenine (C 5 H 5 N
5) under conditions relevant to the Martian surface. Being the fundamental building block of …