Complete-active-space second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2//CASSCF) study of the dissociative electron attachment in canonical DNA nucleobases caused by low-energy electrons (0-3 eV)

doi:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4936574

Title: Complete-active-space second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2//CASSCF) study of the dissociative electron attachment in canonical DNA nucleobases caused by low-energy electrons (0-3 eV)

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Low-energy (0-3 eV) ballistic electrons originated during the irradiation of biological material can interact with DNA/RNA nucleobases yielding transient-anion species which undergo decompositions. Since the discovery that these reactions can eventually lead to strand breaking of the DNA chains, great efforts have been dedicated to their study. The main fragmentation at the 0-3 eV energy range is the ejection of a hydrogen atom from the specific nitrogen positions. In the present study, the methodological approach introduced in a previous work on uracil [I. González-Ramírez et al., J. Chem. Theory Comput. 8, 2769-2776 (2012)] is employed to study the DNA canonical nucleobases fragmentations of N–H bonds induced by low-energy electrons. The approach is based on minimum energy path and linear interpolation of internal coordinates computations along the N–H dissociation channels carried out at the complete-active-space self-consistent field//complete-active-space second-order perturbation theory level. On the basis of the calculated theoretical quantities, new assignations for the adenine and cytosine anion yield curves are provided. In addition, the π{sub 1}{sup −} and π{sub 2}{sup −} states of the pyrimidine nucleobases are expected to produce the temporary anions at electron energies close to 1 and 2 eV, respectively. Finally, the present theoretical results do not allowmore »« less

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Francés-Monerris, Antonio; Segarra-Martí, Javier; Merchán, Manuela; Roca-Sanjuán, Daniel ^[1]

Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universitat de València, P.O. Box 22085, 46071 València (Spain)

Publication Date:: 2015-12-07

OSTI Identifier:: 22493298

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Journal of Chemical Physics

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 143; Journal Issue: 21; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9606

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; ADENINES; ANIONS; ATOMS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CYTOSINE; DECOMPOSITION; DIPOLES; DISSOCIATION; DNA; ELECTRON ATTACHMENT; ELECTRONS; EV RANGE; HYDROGEN; INTERPOLATION; IRRADIATION; NITROGEN; RNA; SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD; URACILS; VALENCE

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                    Francés-Monerris, Antonio, Segarra-Martí, Javier, Merchán, Manuela, and Roca-Sanjuán, Daniel. Complete-active-space second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2//CASSCF) study of the dissociative electron attachment in canonical DNA nucleobases caused by low-energy electrons (0-3 eV).  United States: N. p., 2015. 
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                    Francés-Monerris, Antonio, Segarra-Martí, Javier, Merchán, Manuela, & Roca-Sanjuán, Daniel. Complete-active-space second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2//CASSCF) study of the dissociative electron attachment in canonical DNA nucleobases caused by low-energy electrons (0-3 eV).  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4936574

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                    Francés-Monerris, Antonio, Segarra-Martí, Javier, Merchán, Manuela, and Roca-Sanjuán, Daniel. Mon .  
        "Complete-active-space second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2//CASSCF) study of the dissociative electron attachment in canonical DNA nucleobases caused by low-energy electrons (0-3 eV)".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4936574.

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@article{osti_22493298,

  title        = {Complete-active-space second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2//CASSCF) study of the dissociative electron attachment in canonical DNA nucleobases caused by low-energy electrons (0-3 eV)},

  author       = {Francés-Monerris, Antonio and Segarra-Martí, Javier and Merchán, Manuela and Roca-Sanjuán, Daniel},

  abstractNote = {Low-energy (0-3 eV) ballistic electrons originated during the irradiation of biological material can interact with DNA/RNA nucleobases yielding transient-anion species which undergo decompositions. Since the discovery that these reactions can eventually lead to strand breaking of the DNA chains, great efforts have been dedicated to their study. The main fragmentation at the 0-3 eV energy range is the ejection of a hydrogen atom from the specific nitrogen positions. In the present study, the methodological approach introduced in a previous work on uracil [I. González-Ramírez et al., J. Chem. Theory Comput. 8, 2769-2776 (2012)] is employed to study the DNA canonical nucleobases fragmentations of N–H bonds induced by low-energy electrons. The approach is based on minimum energy path and linear interpolation of internal coordinates computations along the N–H dissociation channels carried out at the complete-active-space self-consistent field//complete-active-space second-order perturbation theory level. On the basis of the calculated theoretical quantities, new assignations for the adenine and cytosine anion yield curves are provided. In addition, the π{sub 1}{sup −} and π{sub 2}{sup −} states of the pyrimidine nucleobases are expected to produce the temporary anions at electron energies close to 1 and 2 eV, respectively. Finally, the present theoretical results do not allow to discard neither the dipole-bound nor the valence-bound mechanisms in the range of energies explored, suggesting that both possibilities may coexist in the experiments carried out with the isolated nucleobases.},

  doi          = {10.1063/1.4936574},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22493298},
  journal      = {Journal of Chemical Physics},

  issn         = {0021-9606},

  number       = 21,

  volume       = 143,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2015},

  month        = {12}

}

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