Abstract
We studied the photoinduced dynamics of hydrated adenine clusters by multiphoton ionization techniques. The majority of the hydrated adenine monomers are found to experience dissociative ionization, where the adenine monomer ions are produced due to the fragmentation of the water solvents by three-photon process. Due to fast internal conversion from the electronic states reached by the first photon, the fragmentation takes place in the vibrationally excited electronic ground state and in the vibrationally excited ionic states. Thus, the abundance of the hydrated adenine monomer ion depends on the excitation photon energy, possibly because the lifetime of the intermediate states is different and an internal conversion competes with direct ionization. In addition, a significant amount of protonated adenine monomer is observed. This indicates that the proton transfer is followed by the fragmentation in the hydrated adenine clusters. The abundance of the protonated adenine monomer also depends on the excitation photon energy mainly due to the ionization efficiency of the parent species.
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