A Quantum Chemical Study of Photoinduced DNA Repair: On the Splitting of Pyrimidine Model Dimers Initiated by Electron Transfer

Energetics of the splitting of pyrimidin

Energetics of the splitting of pyrimidine photodimers induced by electron transfer to rhodium(III) complexes. A quantum chemical study

✍ Janusz Rak; Alexander A. Voityuk; Notker Rösch 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 439 KB

Electron transfer (ET) to Rh(III) complexes intercalated in DNA is known to initiate the photorepair of cyclobutane-type pyrimidine photodimers Pyr<>Pyr. We analyzed the energetics of the elementary steps of the resulting splitting reaction Pyr<>Pyr + Rh(III) + hν → Rh(III) + 2Pyr based on results o