Conspectus Radiation damage to DNA is usually considered in terms of UVA and UVB
radiation. These ultraviolet rays, which are part of the solar spectrum, can indeed cause …

There is accumulating evidence that many chemical reactions are accelerated by several
orders of magnitude in micrometer-sized aqueous or organic liquid droplets compared to …

The estimation of the redox potentials of biologically relevant systems by means of
theoretical-computational approaches still represents a challenge. In fact, the size of these …

The ongoing discoveries of RNA modalities (for example, non-coding, micro and enhancer)
have resulted in an increased desire for detecting, sequencing and identifying RNA …

Oxidative damage to DNA and hole transport between nucleobases in oxidized DNA are
important processes in lesion formation for which surprisingly poor thermodynamic data …

Rationalizing the photochemistry of nucleobases where an oxygen is replaced by a heavier
atom is essential for applications that exploit near-unity triplet quantum yields. Herein, we …

The effect of the protein environment on the electronic structure of the green fluorescent
protein (GFP) chromophore is investigated by QM/MM (quantum mechanics/molecular …

Liquid microjet photoelectron spectroscopy is an increasingly common technique to
measure vertical ionization energies (VIEs) of aqueous solutes, but the interpretation of …

We have simulated ionization of purine nucleic acid components in the gas phase and in a
water environment. The vertical and adiabatic ionization processes were calculated at the …

Despite the ubiquitous nature of aqueous solutions across the chemical, biological and
environmental sciences our experimental understanding of their electronic structure is …