Kinetics of Multistep Hole Transfer in DNA by Monitoring the Transient Absorption of the Pyrene Radical Cation

2003 ◽  
Vol 107 (50) ◽  
pp. 14052-14057 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadao Takada ◽  
Kiyohiko Kawai ◽  
Sachiko Tojo ◽  
Tetsuro Majima
2005 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 963-975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiyohiko Kawai ◽  
Tetsuro Majima

Photosensitized one-electron oxidation of DNA has attracted much interest because it causes oxidative damage which leads to mutation, and because it is involved in the basic mechanism of photodynamic therapy. In the present article, we describe the mechanistic study of photosensitized DNA damage, especially addressing the kinetics of hole transfer by adenine(A)-hopping and its effect on the DNA damage. The combination of the transient absorption measurement and DNA damage quantification by high-performance liquid chromatography clearly demonstrate that the yield of the DNA damage correlates well with the lifetime of the charge-separated state caused by A-hopping, showing that hole transfer helps DNA damage. These findings led us to propose a new method to accomplish the efficient DNA damage using a combination of two-color, two-laser irradiation.


2002 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiyohiko Kawai ◽  
Tadao Takada ◽  
Sachiko Tojo ◽  
Tetsuro Majima

2002 ◽  
Vol 43 (12) ◽  
pp. 2321
Author(s):  
Kiyohiko Kawai ◽  
Tadao Takada ◽  
Sachiko Tojo ◽  
Tetsuro Majima

2001 ◽  
Vol 123 (50) ◽  
pp. 12688-12689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiyohiko Kawai ◽  
Tadao Takada ◽  
Sachiko Tojo ◽  
Nobuyuki Ichinose ◽  
Tetsuro Majima

Author(s):  
Georgia Thornton ◽  
Ryan Phelps ◽  
Andrew Orr-Ewing

The polymerization of photoexcited N-ethylcarbazole (N-EC) in the presence of an electron acceptor begins with an electron transfer (ET) step to generate a radical cation of N-EC (N-EC+.). Here, the...


2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (41) ◽  
pp. 23364-23370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Christensen ◽  
Jinyuan Zhang ◽  
Jiawang Zhou ◽  
Jordan N. Nelson ◽  
Michael R. Wasielewski

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (16) ◽  
pp. 5553
Author(s):  
Zhigang Lou ◽  
Shuyan Liang ◽  
Jiabei Yuan ◽  
Kang Ji ◽  
Jianyu Yuan ◽  
...  

In this work, the ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy (TAs) was utilized to first investigate the charge transfer from the emerging FAPbI3 (FA = CH(NH2)2) perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) to charge transport layers. Specifically, we compared the TAs in pure FAPbI3 PQDs, PQDs grown with both electron and hole transfer layers (ETL and HTL), and PQDs with only ETL or HTL. The TA signals induced by photoexcited electrons decay much faster in PQDs samples with the ETL (~20 ps) compared to the pure FAPbI3 PQDs (>1 ns). These results reveal that electrons can effectively transport between coupled PQDs and transfer to the ETL (TiO2) at a time scale of 20 ps, much faster than the bimolecular charge recombination inside the PQDs (>1 ns), and the electron transfer efficiency is estimated to be close to 100%. In contrast, the temporal evolution of the TA signals in the PQDs with and without HTL exhibit negligible change, and no substantive hole transfer to the HTL (poly[bis(4-phenyl)(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)amine], PTAA) occurs within 1 ns. The much slower hole transfer implies the further potential of increasing the overall photo-carrier conversion efficiency through enhancing the hole diffusion length and fine-tuning the coupling between the HTL and PQDs.


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