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Chem. Commun., 2009, 7291 - 7293, DOI: 10.1039/b920282j

Formation of pyrimidine dimer radical anions in the gas phase

Achim Edtbauer, Katherine Russell, Linda Feketeová, Jörg Taubitz, Christian Mitterdorfer, Stephan Denifl, Richard A. J. OHair, Tilmann D. Märk, Paul Scheier and Uta Wille

Crossed-beam experiments revealed that attachment of a free electron to the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers c,s-DMT<>DMT and c,a-DMT<>DMT leads to the formation of dimer radical anions with the lifetime of at least 80 s, thus showing that the latter are much more stable than previously believed.

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