Photophysics of Deoxycytidine and 5-Methyldeoxycytidine in Solution: A Comprehensive Picture by Quantum Mechanical Calculations and Femtosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Journal of the American Chemical Society
L Martínez-FernándezRoberto Improta

Abstract

The study concerns the relaxation of electronic excited states of the DNA nucleoside deoxycytidine (dCyd) and its methylated analogue 5-methyldeoxycytidine (5mdCyd), known to be involved in the formation of UV-induced lesions of the genetic code. Due to the existence of four closely lying and potentially coupled excited states, the deactivation pathways in these systems are particularly complex and have not been assessed so far. Here, we provide a complete mechanistic picture of the excited state relaxation of dCyd/5mdCyd in three solvents-water, acetonitrile, and tetrahydrofuran-by combining femtosecond fluorescence experiments, addressing the effect of solvent proticity on the relaxation dynamics of dCyd and 5mdCyd for the first time, and two complementary quantum mechanical approaches (CASPT2/MM and PCM/TD-CAM-B3LYP). The lowest energy ππ* state is responsible for the sub-picosecond lifetime observed for dCyd in all the solvents. In addition, computed excited state absorption and transient IR spectra allow one, for the first time, to assign the tens of picoseconds time constant, reported previously, to a dark state (nOπ*) involving the carbonyl lone pair. A second low-lying dark state, involving the nitrogen lone pair (nNπ*)...Continue Reading

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