The synergistic use of (organo) photoredox catalysts with hydrogen-atom transfer (HAT)
cocatalysts has emerged as a powerful strategy for innate C (sp3)–H bond functionalization …

Organic photocatalysts (PCs) are gaining popularity in applications of photoredox catalysis,
but few studies have explored their modus operandi. We report a detailed mechanistic …

The excited-state dynamics of photoexcited diethylamino hydroxybenzoyl hexyl benzoate
(DHHB), a UVA absorber widely used in sunscreen formulations, are studied with transient …

Ring-strain in cyclic organic molecules is well-known to influence their chemical reactivity.
Here, we examine the consequence of ring-strain for competing photochemical pathways …

We study the excited state absorption (ESA) properties of the four DNA bases (thymine,
cytosine, adenine, and guanine) by different single reference quantum mechanical methods …

The energetics of the two main proton coupled electron transfer processes that could occur
in DNA are determined by means of time dependent-DFT calculations, using the M052X …

The polymerization of photoexcited N-ethylcarbazole (N-EC) in the presence of an electron
acceptor begins with an electron transfer (ET) step to generate a radical cation of N-EC (N …

Since a racemic mixture of chiral nucleotides frustrates the enzymeless extension of RNA
and DNA, the origin of homochirality must be intimately connected with the origin of life …

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics is a relevant framework from within which to address
formidable difficulties encountered in explaining the origin of life; from molecular synthesis …

Organic substitutes for ruthenium and iridium complexes are increasingly finding
applications in chemical syntheses involving photoredox catalysis. However, the …