Greco F, Marzano M, Falanga AP, Terracciano M, Piccialli G, Roviello GN, D , #xerrico S, Borbone N, Oliviero G
* Cytosine-rich oligonucleotides incorporating a non-nucleotide loop: A further step towards the obtainment of physiologically stable i-motif DNA (12 views)
Int J Biol Macromol (ISSN: 0141-8130linking, 1879-0003electronic), 2022 Oct 31; 219: 626-636.
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Borbone N, Piccialli I, Falanga AP, Piccialli V, Roviello GN, Oliviero G
* Nucleic Acids as Biotools at the Interface between Chemistry and Nanomedicine in the COVID-19 Era (41 views)
International Journal Of Molecular Sciences, 2022 Jun; 23: 4359-4375.
Impact Factor: 5.924
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Balanikas E, Martinez-fernandez L, Improta R, Podbevšek P, Baldacchino G, Markovitsi D
* The Structural Duality of Nucleobases in Guanine Quadruplexes Controls Their Low-Energy Photoionization (13 views)
J Phys Chem Lett (ISSN: 1948-7185linking, 1948-7185electronic), 2021 Sep 2; 12(34): 8309-8313.
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Wang X, Martínez-fernández L, Zhang Y, Zhang K, Improta R, Kohler B, Xu J, Chen J
* Solvent-Dependent Stabilization of a Charge Transfer State is the Key to Ultrafast Triplet State Formation in an Epigenetic DNA Nucleoside (14 views)
Chemistry (ISSN: 0947-6539linking, 1521-3765electronic), 2021 Jul 26; 27(42): 10932-10940.
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Scognamiglio PL, Platella C, Napolitano E, Musumeci D, Roviello GN
* From Prebiotic Chemistry to Supramolecular Biomedical Materials: Exploring the Properties of Self-Assembling Nucleobase-Containing Peptides (33 views)
Molecules (ISSN: 1420-3049linking, 1420-3049electronic), 2021 Jun 10; 26(12): 3558-3558.
Impact Factor: 4.411
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Green JA, Jouybari MY, Aranda D, Improta R, Santoro F
* Nonadiabatic Absorption Spectra and Ultrafast Dynamics of DNA and RNA Photoexcited Nucleobases (24 views)
Molecules (ISSN: 1420-3049linking, 1420-3049electronic), 2021 Mar 20; 26(6): N/D-N/D.
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Ogloblina AM, Iaccarino N, Capasso D, Di Gaetano S, Garzarella EU, Dolinnaya NG, Yakubovskaya MG, Pagano B, Amato J, Randazzo A
* Toward G-Quadruplex-Based Anticancer Agents: Biophysical and Biological Studies of Novel AS1411 Derivatives (66 views)
Int J Mol Sc (ISSN: 1422-0067linking, 1422-0067electronic, 1661-6596), 2020 Oct 21; 21(20): N/D-N/D.
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Yaghoubi Jouybari M, Liu Y, Improta R, Santoro F
* Ultrafast Dynamics of the Two Lowest Bright Excited States of Cytosine and 1-Methylcytosine: A Quantum Dynamical Study (43 views)
J Chem Theory Comput (ISSN: 1549-9618linking, 1549-9626electronic), 2020 Sep 8; 16(9): 5792-5808.
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Green JA, Improta R
* Vibrations of the guanine-cytosine pair in chloroform: an anharmonic computational study (46 views)
Phys Chem Chem Phys (ISSN: 1463-9076linking, 1463-9084electronic), 2020 Mar 11; 22(10): 5509-5522.
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Avitabile C, Diaferia C, Roviello V, Altamura D, Giannini C, Vitagliano L, Accardo A, Romanelli A
* Fluorescence and Morphology of Self-Assembled Nucleobases and Their Diphenylalanine Hybrid Aggregates (237 views)
Chemistry (ISSN: 0947-6539linking, 1521-3765electronic), 2019 Nov 22; 25(65): 14850-14857.
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Martinez-fernandez L, Gavvala K, Sharma R, Didier P, Richert L, Segarra Marti J, Mori M, Mely Y, Improta R
* Excited-State Dynamics of Thienoguanosine, an Isomorphic Highly Fluorescent Analogue of Guanosine (179 views)
Chemistry (ISSN: 0947-6539linking, 1521-3765electronic), 2019 May 28; 25(30): 7375-7386.
Impact Factor: 5.16
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Marzano M, Falanga AP, D'Errico S, Pinto B, Roviello GN, Piccialli G, Oliviero G, Borbone N
* New G-quadruplex-forming oligodeoxynucleotides incorporating a bifunctional Double-Ended Linker (DEL): effects of DEL size and ODNs orientation on the topology, stability and molecularity of DEL-G-quadruplexes (310 views)
Molecules (ISSN: 1420-3049linking, 1420-3049electronic), 2019 Feb 12; 24(3): 654-654.
Impact Factor: 3.06
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Martinez Fernandez L, Muñoz-losa A, Esposito L, Improta R
* The optical properties of adenine cation in different oligonucleotides: a PCM/TD‑DFT study (201 views) (PDF 135 views)
Theor Chem Acc (ISSN: 1432-881x), 2018; 137(3): N/D-N/D.
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Conti I, Martinez-fernandez L, Esposito L, Hofinger S, Nenov A, Garavelli M, Improta R
* Multiple Electronic and Structural Factors Control Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimer and 6-4 Thymine-Thymine Photodimerization in a DNA Duplex (915 views)
Chemistry (ISSN: 0947-6539, 1521-3765, 1521-3765electronic), 2017 Oct 26; 23(60): 15177-15188.
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Piras L, Avitabile C, D'Andrea LD, Saviano M, Romanelli A
* Detection of oligonucleotides by PNA-peptide conjugates recognizing the biarsenical fluorescein complex FlAsH-EDT2 (280 views)
Biochem Bioph Res Co (ISSN: 0006-291x), 2017 Sep 15; N/D: N/D-N/D.
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Pepino AJ, Segarra-marti J, Nenov A, Improta R, Garavelli M
* Resolving Ultrafast Photoinduced Deactivations in Water-Solvated Pyrimidine Nucleosides (324 views)
J Phys Chem Lett (ISSN: 1948-7185, 1948-7185electronic, 1948-7185linking), 2017 Apr 20; 8(8): 1777-1783.
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Martinez-fernandez L, Zhang Y, De La Harpe K, Beckstead AA, Kohler B, Improta R
* Photoinduced long-lived charge transfer excited states in AT-DNA strands (178 views)
Phys Chem Chem Phys (ISSN: 1463-9076, 1463-3907, 1463-9084electronic), 2016 Aug 21; 18(31): 21241-21245.
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Roviello GN, Musumeci D
* Synthetic approaches to nucleopeptides containing all the four nucleobases, and nucleic acid-binding studies on a mixed-sequence nucleo-oligolysine (439 views)
Rsc Adv (ISSN: 2046-2069, 2046-2069electronic), 2016 Jun; 6: 63578-63585.
Impact Factor: 3.108
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Improta R, Santoro F, Blancafort L
* Quantum Mechanical Studies on the Photophysics and the Photochemistry of Nucleic Acids and Nucleobases (1240 views)
Chem Rev (ISSN: 0009-2665), 2016; 116(6): 3540-3593.
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Roviello GN, Vicidomini C, Di Gaetano S, Capasso D, Musumeci D, Roviello V
* Solid phase synthesis and RNA-binding activity of an arginine-containing nucleopeptide (443 views)
Rsc Adv (ISSN: 2046-2069, 2046-2069electronic), 2016; 6(17): 14140-14148.
Impact Factor: 3.108
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Zhang Y, de La Harpe K, Beckstead AA, Improta R, Kohler B
* UV-Induced Proton Transfer between DNA Strands (510 views) (PDF 242 views)
J Am Chem Soc (ISSN: 0002-7863, 0002-2786, 0002-7863print), 2015 Jun 10; 137(22): 7059-7062.
Impact Factor: 13.038
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Muñoz-Losa A, Markovitsi D, Improta R
* A State-Specific PCM-DFT method to include dynamic solvent effects in the calculation of ionization energies: Application to DNA bases (246 views)
Chem Phys Lett (ISSN: 0009-2614), 2015; 634: 20-24.
Impact Factor: 1.86
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Improta R, Barone V
* Excited States behavior of nucleobases in solution: insights from computational studies (212 views)
Top Curr Chem (ISSN: 0340-1022), 2015; 355: 329-357.
Impact Factor: 4.014
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Avitabile C, D'Andrea LD, Romanelli A
* Exploring the dark matter of the human genome using oligonucleotide-based molecules (282 views)
Future Med Chem (ISSN: 1756-8919, 1756-8919linking, 1756-8927electronic), 2015; 7(13): 1627-1630.
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Musumeci D, Rozza L, Merlino A, Paduano L, Marzo T, Massai L, Messori L, Montesarchio D
* Interaction of anticancer Ru(III) complexes with single stranded and duplex DNA model systems (608 views)
Dalton T (ISSN: 1477-9226, 1477-9234, 1477-9226linking), 2015; 44(31): 13914-13925.
Impact Factor: 4.177
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Zhang Y, Dood J, Beckstead AA, Li X-B, Nguyen KV, Burrows CJ, Improta R, Kohler B
* Photoinduced Electron Transfer in DNA: Charge Shift Dynamics between 8-Oxo-Guanine Anion and Adenine (943 views)
J Phys Chem B (ISSN: 1520-6106, 1520-5207, 1520-5207linking), 2015; 119(24): 7491-7502.
Impact Factor: 3.187
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Changenet-Barret P, Gustavsson T, Improta R, Markovitsi D
* Ultrafast Excited-State Deactivation of 8-Hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine Studied by Femtosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Quantum-Chemical Calculations (539 views)
J Phys Chem A (ISSN: 1089-5639, 1520-5215electronic, 1089-5639linking), 2015; 119(23): 6131-6139.
Impact Factor: 2.883
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Improta R, Ferrer FJ, Stendardo E, Santoro F
* Quantum-classical calculation of the absorption and emission spectral shapes of oligothiophenes at low and room temperature by first-principle calculations (266 views)
Chemphyschem (ISSN: 1439-4235, 1439-7641, 1439-4235linking), 2014 Oct 20; 15(15): 3320-3333.
Impact Factor: 3.419
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Zhang Y, Dood J, Beckstead AA, Li X-B, Nguyen KV, Burrows CJ, Improta R, Kohler B
* Efficient UV-induced charge separation and recombination in an 8-oxoguanine-containing dinucleotide (417 views)
P Natl Acad Sci Usa (ISSN: 0027-8424, 1091-6490, 0027-8424print), 2014 Sep 12; 111(32): 11612-11617.
Impact Factor: 9.674
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Improta R
* Quantum mechanical calculations unveil the structure and properties of the absorbing and emitting excited electronic states of guanine quadruplex (581 views)
Chemistry (ISSN: 0947-6539, 1521-3765, 1521-3765electronic), 2014 Jun 23; 20(26): 8106-8115.
Impact Factor: 5.731
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Santoro F, Improta R, Fahleson T, Kauczor J, Norman P, Coriani S
* Relative stability of the La and Lb excited states in adenine and guanine: Direct evidence from TD-DFT calculations of MCD spectra (296 views)
J Phys Chem Lett (ISSN: 1948-7185, 1948-7185electronic, 1948-7185linking), 2014 Jun 5; 5(11): 1806-1811.
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Romanucci V, Milardi D, Campagna T, Gaglione M, Messere A, D'Urso A, Crisafi E, La Rosa C, Zarrelli A, Balzarini J, Di Fabio G
* Synthesis, biophysical characterization and anti-HIV activity of d(TG(3)AG) Quadruplexes bearing hydrophobic tails at the 5 '-end (372 views)
Bioorg Med Chem (ISSN: 0968-0896, 1464-3391, 0968-0896linking), 2014 Feb 1; 22(3): 960-966.
Impact Factor: 2.793
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Malgieri G, Palmieri M, Esposito S, Maione V, Russo L, Baglivo I, De Paola I, Milardi D, Diana D, Zaccaro L, Pedone PV, Fattorusso R, Isernia C
* Zinc To Cadmium Replacement In The Prokaryotic Zinc-Finger Domain (463 views)
Metallomics (ISSN: 1756-591x, 1756-5901, 1756-591xelectronic), 2013 Dec 18; 6(1): 96-104.
Impact Factor: 3.978
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Banyasz A, Gustavsson T, Onidas D, Changenet-Barret P, Markovitsi D, Improta R
* Multi-pathway excited state relaxation of adenine oligomers in aqueous solution: A joint theoretical and experimental study (315 views)
Chemistry (ISSN: 0947-6539, 1521-3765, 1521-3765electronic), 2013 Mar; 19(11): 3762-3774.
Impact Factor: 5.696
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Banyasz A, Douki T, Improta R, Gustavsson T, Onidas D, Vaya I, Perron M, Markovitsi D
* Electronic excited states responsible for dimer formation upon UV absorption directly by thymine strands: Joint experimental and theoretical study (364 views)
J Am Chem Soc (ISSN: 0002-7863, 0002-2786, 1520-5126), 2012 Sep 12; 134(36): 14834-14845.
Impact Factor: 10.677
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Hua Y, Changenet-Barret P, Improta R, Vaya I, Gustavsson T, Kotlyar AB, Zikich D, Sket P, Plavec J, Markovitsi D
* Cation effect on the electronic excited states of guanine nanostructures studied by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy (420 views)
J Phys Chem C (ISSN: 1932-7447), 2012 Jul 12; 116(27): 14682-14689.
Impact Factor: 4.814
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Gustavsson T, Improta R, Banyasz A, Vaya I, Markovitsi D
* The effect of methylation on the excited state dynamics of aminouracils (313 views)
J Photochem Photobiol A Chem (ISSN: 1010-6030), 2012 Apr 15; 234: 37-43.
Impact Factor: 2.416
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Musumeci D, Oliviero G, Roviello GN, Bucci EM, Piccialli G
* G-quadruplex-forming oligonucleotide conjugated to magnetic nanoparticles: Synthesis, characterization, and enzymatic stability assays (920 views)
Bioconjug Chem (ISSN: 1043-1802, 1520-4812, 1520-4812electronic), 2012 Mar 21; 23(3): 382-391.
Impact Factor: 4.58
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Biemann L, Kovalenko SA, Kleinermanns K, Mahrwald R, Markert M, Improta R
* Excited state proton transfer is not involved in the ultrafast deactivation of Guanine-cytosine pair in solution (375 views)
J Am Chem Soc (ISSN: 0002-7863, 0002-2786, 1520-5126), 2011 Dec 14; 133(49): 19664-19667.
Impact Factor: 9.907
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Picconi D, Barone V, Lami A, Santoro F, Improta R
* The Interplay between ππ*/nπ* excited states in gas-phase thymine: A quantum dynamical study (295 views)
Chemphyschem (ISSN: 1439-4235, 1439-7641, 1439-7641electronic), 2011 Jul 11; 12(10): 1957-1968.
Impact Factor: 3.412
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Banyasz A, Karpati S, Mercier Y, Reguero M, Gustavsson T, Markovitsi D, Improta R
* The peculiar spectral properties of amino-substituted uracils: A combined theoretical and experimental study (367 views)
J Phys Chem B (ISSN: 1520-6106, 1520-5207, 1520-5207electronic), 2010 Oct 7; 114(39): 12708-12719.
Impact Factor: 3.603
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Changenet-Barret P, Emanuele E, Gustavsson T, Improta R, Kotlyar AB, Markovitsi D, Vaya I, Zakrzewska K, Zikich D
* Optical properties of guanine nanowires: Experimental and theoretical study (280 views)
J Phys Chem C (ISSN: 1932-7447), 2010 Sep 2; 114(34): 14339-14346.
Impact Factor: 4.524
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Gustavsson T, Improta R, Markovitsi D
DNA/RNA: Building blocks of life under UV irradiation (260 views)
J Phys Chem Lett (ISSN: 1948-7185, 1948-7185electronic, 1948-7185linking), 2010 Jul 1; 1(13): 2025-2030.
Impact Factor: 6.687
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Improta R, Santoro F, Barone V, Lami A
* Vibronic model for the quantum dynamical study of the competition between bright and charge-transfer excited states in single-strand polynucleotides: the adenine dimer case (271 views)
J Phys Chem A (ISSN: 1089-5639, 1520-5215electronic, 1089-5639linking), 2009 Dec 31; 113(52): 15346-15354.
Impact Factor: 2.899
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Improta R, Barone V
* PCM/TD-DFT study of the two lowest excited states of uracil derivatives in solution: The effect of the functional and of the cavity model (224 views)
J Mol Struct Theochem (ISSN: 0166-1280), 2009 Nov 30; 914(1-3): 87-93.
Impact Factor: 1.216
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Santoro F, Improta R, Barone V
* Three-dimensional diabatic models for the ππ* → nπ*excited-state decay of uracil derivatives in solution (253 views)
Theor Chem Acc (ISSN: 1432-881x), 2009 Jun; 123(3-4): 273-286.
Impact Factor: 2.584
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Karunakaran V, Kleinermanns K, Improta R, Kovalenko SA
* Photoinduced dynamics of guanosine monophosphate in water from broad-band transient absorption spectroscopy and quantum-chemical calculations (278 views)
J Am Chem Soc (ISSN: 0002-7863, 0002-2786, 1520-5126), 2009; 131(16): 5839-5850.
Impact Factor: 8.58
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Santoro F, Barone V, Improta R
* The Excited States Decay Of The A-T Dna: A Pcm/Td-Dft Study In Aqueous Solution Of The (9-Methyl-Adenine) 2 (1-Methyl-Thymine) 2 Stacked Tetramer (241 views)
J Am Chem Soc (ISSN: 0002-7863, 0002-2786, 1520-5126), 2009; 131(42): 15232-15245.
Impact Factor: 8.58
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Mercier Y, Santoro F, Reguero M, Improta R
* The decay from the dark nπ* excited state in uracil: An integrated CASPT2/CASSCF and PCM/TD-DFT study in the gas phase and in water (343 views)
J Phys Chem B (ISSN: 1520-6106, 1520-5207, 1520-5207electronic), 2008 Sep 4; 112(35): 10769-10772.
Impact Factor: 4.189
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Improta R, Barone V
The excited states of adenine and thymine nucleoside and nucleotide in aqueous solution: A comparative study by time-dependent DFT calculations (216 views)
Theor Chem Acc (ISSN: 1432-881x), 2008 Jul; 120(4-6): 491-497.
Impact Factor: 2.37
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Gustavsson T, Bányász A, Sarkar N, Markovitsi D, Improta R
* Assessing solvent effects on the singlet excited state lifetime of uracil derivatives: A femtosecond fluorescence upconversion study in alcohols and D2O (288 views)
Chem Phys (ISSN: 0301-0104), 2008 Jun 23; 350(1-3): 186-192.
Impact Factor: 1.961
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Gustavsson T, Banyasz A, Sarkar N, Markovitsi D, Improta R
* Statin: New life for an old drug (368 views)
Pharmacol Res Academic Press, 2008 Jun 23; 350(1-3): 1-2.
Impact Factor: 3.976
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Santoro F, Barone V, Improta R
* Can TD-DFT calculations accurately describe the excited states behavior of stacked nucleobases? The cytosine dimer as a test case (295 views)
J Comput Chem (ISSN: 0192-8651, 1096-987xelectronic, 0192-8651linking), 2008 Apr 30; 29(6): 957-964.
Impact Factor: 3.39
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Improta R
The Excited States Of Pi-Stacked 9-Methyl Adenine Oligomers: A Td-Dft Study In Aqueous Solution (179 views)
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2008; 10: 2656-2664.
Impact Factor: 2.028
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Santoro F, Barone V, Benzi C, Improta R
* Excited state properties of sizable molecules in solution: From structure to reactivity (271 views)
Theor Chem Acc (ISSN: 1432-881x), 2007 May; 117(5-6): 1073-1084.
Impact Factor: 2.537
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Santoro F, Gustavsson T, Lami S, Barone V, Improta R
* Towards the understanding of the excited state dynamics of nucleic acids: Solvent and stacking effect on the photophysical behavior of nucleobases (229 views)
Aip Conf Proc (ISSN: 0094-243x), 2007; 963(2): 631-634.
Impact Factor: 0
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Santoro F, Barone V, Gustavsson T, Improta R
* Solvent effect on the singlet excited-state lifetimes of nucleic acid bases: A computational study of 5-fluorouracil and uracil in acetonitrile and water (866 views)
J Am Chem Soc (ISSN: 0002-7863, 0002-2786, 1520-5126), 2006 Dec 20; 128(50): 16312-16322.
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Zannetti A, Del Vecchio S, Carriero MV, Fonti R, Franco P, Botti G, D'Aiuto G, Stoppelli MP, Salvatore M
Coordinate up-regulation of Sp1 DNA-binding activity and urokinase receptor expression in breast carcinoma (479 views)
Cancer Res (ISSN: 0008-5472, 1538-7445, 1538-7445electronic), 2000 Mar 15; 60(6): 1546-1551.
Impact Factor: 8.46
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De Napoli L, De Luca S, Di Fabio G, Messere A, Montesarchio D, Morelli G, Piccialli G, Tesauro D
A facile solid-phase strategy for the synthesis of oligonucleotide- tetraphenylporphyrin conjugates (426 views)
European Journal Of Organic Chemistry (ISSN: 1434-193x), 2000; (6): 1013-1018.
Impact Factor: 2.15
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