Physicists uncover new data on adenine, a crucial building block of life
Physicists uncover new data on adenine, a crucial building block of life - A University of Georgia physicist and a collaborator in Germany have shown that one of these building blocks of DNA and RNA, adenine, has an unexpectedly variable range of ionization energies along its reaction pathways. This means that understanding experimental data on how adenine survives exposure to UV light is much more complicated than previously thought. It also has far-reaching implications for spectroscopic measurements of heterocyclic compounds-those with atoms of at least two different elements in their rings.
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