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Critical Review

Analyst, 2009, 134, 1265 - 1273, DOI: 10.1039/b902108f


ps-TRIR covers all the bases – recent advances in the use of transient IR for the detection of short-lived species in nucleic acids

Michael Towrie, Gerard W. Doorley, Michael W. George, Anthony W. Parker, Susan J. Quinn and John M. Kelly


Recent developments of the picosecond transient absorption infrared technique and its ability to elucidate the nature and kinetic behaviour of transient species formed upon pulsed laser excitation of nucleic acids are described.

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