0000000001120138
AUTHOR
Elena Rodríguez
Rapid and Simple Determination of Honokiol and Magnolol in Cosmetic Products by Liquid Chromatography with Ultraviolet Detection
A rapid and simple analytical method based on liquid chromatography – ultraviolet detection has been developed and validated for the simultaneous determination of two high added-value cosmetic ingr...
Unified model for the ultrafast decay of pyrimidine nucleobases.
Ultrafast decay processes detected after absorption of UV radiation in gas-phase pyrimidine nucleobases uracil, thymine, and cytosine are ascribed to the barrierless character of the pathway along the low-lying 1(pipi*) hypersurface connecting the Franck-Condon region with an out-of-plane distorted ethene-like conical intersection with the ground state. Longer lifetime decays and low quantum yield emission are on the other hand related to the presence of a 1(pipi*) state planar minimum on the S1 surface and the barriers to access other conical intersections. A unified model for the three systems is established on the basis of accurate multiconfigurational CASPT2 calculations, whereas the ef…