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Article citation: Achim Edtbauer, Chem. Commun., 2009, 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. O
Hair, 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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