Abstract
We report spectroscopy of clusters of guanine base pairs with one and two water molecules. We recorded the vibronic spectra of the mass-selected GG(H2O) and GG(H2O)2 clusters using resonant two photon ionization (R2PI) and we used IR-UV double resonance spectroscopy to obtain ground state IR spectra of these clusters. We found that a single water molecule stabilizes one of two structures we had previously found for guanine dimers. Addition of a second water molecule causes no further structural change.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2374-2375 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Chemical Society |
| Volume | 127 |
| Issue number | 8 |
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| State | Published - Mar 2 2005 |