Femtosecond cluster studies of the solvated 7-azaindole excited state double-proton transfer
AUTOR(ES)
Folmer, D. E.
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
Presented here are femtosecond pump-probe studies on the water-solvated 7-azaindole dimer, a model DNA base pair. In particular, studies are presented that further elucidate the nature of the reactive and nonreactive dimers and also provide new insights establishing that the excited state double-proton transfer in the dimer occurs in a stepwise rather than a concerted manner. A major question addressed is whether the incorporation of a water molecule with the dimer results in the formation of species that are unable to undergo excited state double-proton transfer, as suggested by a recent study reported in the literature [Nakajima, A., Hirano, M., Hasumi, R., Kaya, K., Watanabe, H., Carter, C. C., Williamson, J. M. & Miller, T. (1997) J. Phys. Chem. 101, 392–398]. In contrast to this earlier work, our present findings reveal that both reactive and nonreactive dimers can coexist in the molecular beam under the same experimental conditions and definitively show that the clustering of water does not induce the formation of the nonreactive dimer. Rather, when present with a species already determined to be a nonreactive dimer, the addition of water can actually facilitate the occurrence of the proton transfer reaction. Furthermore, on attaining a critical hydration number, the data for the nonreactive dimer suggest a solvation-induced conformational structure change leading to proton transfer on the photoexcited half of the 7-azaindole dimer.
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